About Tim Allen
Tim Allen’s bold and gestural paintings and drawings depict a personal experience of place – often the wilderness landscape.
Tim has a BA (Visual Arts) and an MFA (Research) from COFA (UNSW) and his painting career spans 30 years. He has been awarded several prestigious Australian art prizes such as the $30,000 Paddington Art Prize in 2017 and the Kedumba Drawing Award in 2016. He has been a finalist multiple times in many of Australia’s leading art prizes. Tim has had 28 solo exhibitions, including ‘Immersion’ at Orange Regional Gallery in 2019
“For Tim Allen a painting grows out of the fluent, expressive drawings he makes on the spot. These are very physical images, full of compressed energy and jagged forms.”
John McDonald, Art critic
Tim Allen: Symbolic landscapes
“When you look at any of the landscapes drawn and painted by Tim Allen you see paintings and drawings that begin en plein air. He then takes (these) plein air sketches into his studio. These sketches inform imaginary, symbolic landscapes, each true to the day and subject on which it is based. His first inclination in the studio is to begin with abstract gestural marks. Over months, sometimes years, he gradually works up these gestural marks until their forms express his memories of a place.”
Kon Gouriotis OAM
Editor, Artist Profile magazine
