Tim Haldane

I am a self taught (still learning), local artist, only coming to it recently without any idea I had an artistic bone in my body until I started to make marks. Where my ideas come from, I don’t really know; I paint instinctively. I am still only just beginning to discover myself.

I work mostly with acrylics, both paint and ink but sometimes use pastels, watercolour and other multimedia materials and tools in my work.

My work is mostly abstract depictions of the real world, but occasionally, I will paint a landscape. I also sometimes work with my wife, Sheila, who is a textile artist.

I enjoy both the freedom and imagination that abstract work affords me and the self discipline required to paint a landscape; they teach me different things in my learning journey. I have yet to develop a style per se, but I do like to paint small collections with the same theme and meaning before moving on to something new to try.

Despite being a new artist, I am humbled to have been invited to show my work at several exhibitions already and have even sold some! Already I have learnt the subjectivity of my work; what it means to me, is not necessarily what it means to someone else. That is the joy of what I do.

My Portrait Collection is entitled 'Persons Not Detected' ...

So-called because when I photographed these paintings. My phone would always try to pick up on the faces, but couldn’t and gave the message ‘person not detected”. Given the subjects of this collection, the title seems fitting.