timfawcett

Tim Fawcett - Painter

Tim Fawcett is a painter, originally from Cambridge, studied Fine Art at Sunderland and Cambridge with a brief spell of PGCE training at Brighton where he continued to paint and exhibit whilst freelancing as an architectural designer. He moved to the Isle of Wight, UK in 2016, in order to commit to his practice full time.

Fawcett’s painting practice explores visual dichotomies - concrete versus abstract, discipline versus freedom, and order versus chaos. Rooted in figurative expressionism, his practice evolved to its current position following a transformative experience, teaching adults with learning disabilities. The natural freedom his students embodied in their approach challenged Fawcett’s own relationship with order and chaos.

A visual paradox emerges in Fawcett’s mature work, as something seemingly simple and haphazard gradually reveals itself to be layered and complex—a glimpse of the metaphysical within the mundane. His idiosyncratic yet harmonious compositions evoke both the failure of logical systems to solve modern problems, and the inherent optimism embedded within intuition and spontaneity.

Fawcett is based in Isle of Wight, and his work has been exhibited extensively throughout the UK and shown in Italy and USA.

Exhibitions

Solo

2020 "Edge of Abstraction", Aspire, Ryde. Curated by Jan Johnston and Zoe Barker

2017 Solo show “Life is Modern Rubbish” Jackhouse Gallery Portsmouth

2013 "Distillation" Redrooster, Brighton

Group

2020 JP Art Gallery London, Autumn and Winter Exhibitions

2020 Artists for NHS, St Mary's Hospital, Newport

2020 Artists for YMCA fundraiser, donated works for young carers

2020 The Other Art Fair, Trueman's Brewery, London Mar 19-22nd POSTPONED

2019 Open Studio , Ryde, Isle of Wight

2019 Quay Arts Gallery, Isle of Wight - Group Showcase

2018 Dynamite Gallery, Brighton -Group show,

2017 Camaver Kunsthaus, Italy,

2017 Affordable Art Fair Battersea, London

2016 DMH Stallard London, Group show

2016 Ink-d Gallery Group show

2016 Shortlisted for National Open Art Competition

2016 Art for Syria Auction donation

2016 Big Heart Charity Auction donation

2015 Galerie de Francony - Selected works

2015 King's Hill Gallery, Kent, UK

2015 DMH Stallard, Gatwick, UK

2015 Ink-d Gallery - summer group show

2015 Saatchi online "Artist of the Day"

2015 Spring Show Jeffrey Meier Gallery New Jersey

2014 Phoenix Gallery Brighton "A3" group show & auction

2014 Phoenix Open Studios

2014 Ink-d Gallery Brighton "Pushing Paint"

2013 Affordable Art Fair - Battersea, London

2013 JAG Gallery –Brighton

2016 Willow foundation Charity Art Auction

2012 Affordable Art Fair - Hampstead, London

2012 Affordable Art Fair - Battersea, London

2010-2012 Lilford Gallery, Canterbury

2009 Ink-D gallery Brighton - "pushing paint" group show

2009 No Walls Gallery - group show

2009 First Floor 2 Gallery -group show

Contact Me

+44(0)7585 807693

Bibliography

Smith, Sandra: “In the Frame”, Hampshire Life, January edition, 2018

Crowe, Rebecca: “Modern Rubbish is Life”, Solo exhibition catalogue, 2017

Giornale di Lecco: “Villa Monastero ospita l’arte internazionale”, Italy 8th June 2017

Williams, Kathy (Mental Health Arts): “Unmade”, group show, Foal Arts, Ryde 2017

Private Collections

UK, Italy, France, Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Australia, USA, Japan and Israel