News about Tim Lane
You can now start buying Tim's work online
A small selection of limited edition prints have just been made available to purchase online via Knifesmith Gallery's online store. More will be added shortly.
Local Tim exhibits in Cheltenham
Over the Christmas period Tim will be exhibiting prints at 'Bylocal Gallery' in Cheltenham's Regent Arcade . (www.bylocal.webs.com) The exhibition includes a rich variety of artists and craftsmen producing painting, pottery, jewellery, photography, sculpture and many other interesting crafts all at affordable prices. Private view is on Thursday 26th of November 6pm-8pm.
Coming soon...
Tim is spending the rest of 2009 working on a series of drawings for an exhibition early next year at Knifesmith Gallery in Bristol, hoping to follow on from the success of October's exhibition there. The new show, in its early stages but will no doubt include examples of Tim's usual brand of intricate and darkly imaginative illustrations based on familiar (and not so familiar) literary sources.
Chief Broom (2007) - pencil and acrylic 420 x 594 mm
Descent Into Savagery (2009) - pencil and acrylic 594 x 841 mm
Big Cats (2007) - pencil 297 x 420 mm
Chief In Milk (2007) - pencil and acrylic 420 x 594 mm
Coffin Bearers (2007) - pencil 297 x 420 mm
Punch (2009) - pencil 420 x 594 mm sold
Limited Edition prints available of all original drawings
The Ghost of Christmas Future (2009) - pierrenoir pencil and acrylic 1200 x 420 mm sold
Limited Edition prints available of all original drawings
Tutankhamen (2008) - pencil 600 x 600 mm sold
Limited Edition prints available of all original drawings
Drawings
Drawing is very close to Tim's heart, and is his preferred mode of expression; feeling it is the most fluid, visceral and satisfying way of realising his ideas. Tim studied illustration at college and was mainly interested in narrative illustration, taking inspiration from the intricacy of the old illustrators such as Hogarth, Gustave Dore, Arthur Rackham... as well as the darkness and expressive drawing style of more modern illustrators like Simon Bisley, Sam Weber, James Jean...
Because of his illustration background Tim's drawings are usually inspired by reading literature. He enjoys drawing his versions of characters from books and arranging them in a scene that he found the most emotionally affecting or with the most interesting or subversive subtext. "I really love trying to condense the intensity of the writer's words and their myriad levels of meaning into my own visual image; that act of interpreting the text, which is one art form, and expressing it or bringing it to life in another art form - is the most satisfying mental exercise for me".
All unsold originals are available to buy and all images are available as limited edition giclee prints. (run of 50)
