Tim Klein | First Contact

Description

Tim is a Brisbane painter with a creative practice developed over four
decades. Scrawled across his palette is a key message to himself
–“make the art I want to see”. Following his nose, drawing inspiration
from many sources, his work is always personal and relational; and
typically narrative and gestural. Common themes are connection,
ancient myth, and inner journeys, often explored with playful humour.
Typically unplanned the works are built in layers – usually beginning
with pencil scribbles followed by layers of oil and cold wax. Tim’s
palette embraces colour, bright but rarely unnatural. Motifs in a
symbolic language appear and reappear in his painting linking pieces
into a coherent body of work. Textural and symbolic, Tim’s works
invite contemplation and interpretation inviting the viewer to find their
own story in each piece.