Imagine you’re out in the wilderness at least an hour’s walk from any sign of human life. It could be very hot, it could be freezing, and in front of you lies a canyon or a snow bank or a river glittering in the sun. Just you, the landscape and your paints. This is how Tim Allen often starts off his expressive landscapes and it’s become an important part of his practice.
Allen won one of Australia’s most watched landscape prizes last year; the Paddington Art prize. He has also won the Kedumba drawing award and has had 19 solo shows across Australia.
In this episode you’ll hear him talk about how Chinese brush painting fits in with his work, his interesting methods when it comes to brushes and he talks about another type of wilderness – the wilderness years before he started his Masters degree.
We recorded this episode in his studio in the Blue Mountains, west of Sydney, surrounded by his works which would be sent to Defiance Gallery in Sydney a few days later for his exhibition ‘Contour, weathered’.
To hear the podcast interview press ‘play’ beneath the feature photo, above.
A short video of Allen in his studio on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel can be seen below.
Current events
- Solo show ‘Contour, weathered’ at Defiance Gallery, Sydney 18 April 2018 to 18 May 2018
Show notes
- Tim Allen
- Tim Allen on Instagram
- Tim Allen at Defiance Gallery
- Paddington Art prize
- Kevin Connor
- Willem De Kooning
- Arthur Streeton
- ‘Fire’s On’, 1891, by Arthur Streeton
- Tim Allen talks with Maria Stoljar in his studio on the Talking with Painters YouTube channel
‘Swoon’ 2018, oil on linen, 122 x 122cm
‘Buoyant’, 2016 – 2018, oil on linen, 136 x 183cm
‘Detach’, 2018, oil on linen 136 x 167cm
‘Apsley Gorge’, 2017, mixed media on paper, 95 x 79cm
Working plein air at the Snowy river
Wonderful!!!