A contemporary abstract painter based in Portishead, near Bristol, Tim Willcox works across a broad range of mixed media to explore various narratives, the expressive potential of colour, texture, and collage, which features strongly in all his current work.
Following a twenty-five-year career in advertising and design, he now paints full-time, utilising a layered visual language that combines found and constructed collage, oil pastel, pencil, Posca pen, stencilling, and acrylic spray.
He is exhibiting a selection of works from his latest series, Aer #1 – 6. These paintings adopt an abstract, aerial perspective, examining the evolving relationship between human activity and the natural world. Themes of growth, erosion, and intervention emerge through fractured forms and shifting patterns, suggesting both disruption and adaptation across the landscape.
His work is informed by the work of Kevin Krautgartner, Tom Hegen, and Edward Burtynsky, whose film making, and photographic explorations of the Anthropocene reflect humanity’s impact on – and responsibility towards – the natural world.
