BIOGRAPHY
Timothy John is a contemporary Australian painter who passionately reveals the spirit of the Australian landscape: expansive, thoughtful, sometimes threatening, and romantic.
John’s oeuvre has encompassed the subtlety of the Australian landscape’s transient moods, the silently unfolding vibrancy of its vast expanse. He has searchingly recorded his most personal, intuitive responses to place of his birthright and his ongoing source and subject for creative revisitation.
“I need an intimate and ‘real’ knowledge of a landscape before I can paint and render it successfully. This means that I sometimes return to an area many times before I feel comfortable enough in myself to commit my reactions to the canvas.”
“I need to experience the same landscape many times in different weather conditions, before paintings are defined. I do not try to portray the landscape in a strict physical sense, rather, I hope to capture its essence, the light, the colour and the texture and shapes before me, all of which focus me into creating an emotionally accurate response.”
SOLO EXHIBITIONS
- 2003 BMG ART, Adelaide Australia
- 2000 BMG ART, Adelaide Australia
- 1999 Bulle Galleries, Melbourne Australia
- 1999 BMG ART, Adelaide Australia
- 1997 BMG ART, Adelaide Australia
GROUP EXHIBITIONS
- 2001 Volvo Gallery, Sydney
- 1998 University of South Australia Art museum
- 1997 Olsen Carr Art Dealers, Sydney Australia
- 1997 DEXA Gallery, University of Panama
- 1995 Fukuya Gallery, Hiroshima Japan