Tim Southall was born in Staffordshire in 1961 and grew up on the edge of the heavy industrial heartlands of the Black Country. He was based in London for twenty years, until in 2001 he moved to the beautiful countryside of the Costa de la Luz – the coast of light – in Cadiz Province, southern Spain.
Tim is a painter and printmaker who strives to make work which is delicate and shows a lightness of touch along with an eye for detail and nuance. At the same time he uses the language of drawing and mark-making in an attempt to describe emotional depth and atmosphere. He also delights in using visual devices or narratives to convey some of the great classical themes and hopefully create something new and fresh with a modern voice. The resulting works are rarely direct representations or specific places but distillations of various places and experiences and pose the two basic questions of metaphysics: What is ultimately there? and, What is it like?
Education
1985 — Royal College of Art, M.A.
(Henry Moore Bursary)
1983 —École de Beaux Arts, Paris,
Stone Lithography Studio
1979 — University of Northumbria,
B.A. (Hons) Fine Art
Recent Solo Exhibitions
2016 — The New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
2015 — The White Room Gallery, Leamington Spa
2014 —‘Landscapes’ Harborne Art Gallery
2013 — Millard & Lancaster, Shrewsbury
2012 —’Etchings’ Number Nine, The Gallery, B’ham
2011 — ‘Limited Editions’ The White Room Gallery
2010 — galeria la rampa, Vejer de la Frontera
2009 — el palomar de la breña, Barbate
Recent Mixed & Selected exhibitions
2015 PMC 50th Anniversary Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
SALON, Waterhall, Birmingham City Art Gallery
National Open Print Exhibition, Bankside Gallery, London
Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
50:50, New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham
Work on Paper, the PMC at The Barbican Library
RCA Secrets, the Royal College of Art
Prints and Drawing, Art Mill Gallery, Plymouth
2014 Landmark Autumn Art Fair, Teddington
Manchester Art Fair
CMYK, Pie Factory, Margate
RBSA Open Print Biennale
The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea
Freshly Pressed, Craft Central, Clerkenwell
Works on Paper, The Science Museum, London