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Nancy Dodds Gallery 7th and San Carlos P.O. Box 6016 Carmel, CA 93921 831-624-0346 ndg@nancydoddsgallery.com |
Tim Horn If you stood in front of the house where I grew up, you could throw a rock in 3 directions and hit corn. I was raised in a small town in Ohio, where the countryside was dominated by oceans of corn punctuated with barns, farmhouses and outbuildings. The tools and artifacts of farm life nestled in the yards, exposing the workings and personalities of the inhabitants. After high school I moved to New York to attend art school and ended up living in the city for 11 years where I worked as a graphic designer. I lived in a series of apartments in borderline neighborhoods. Crumbling brick tenement buildings, vacant lots and small parks were scattered with urban debris, pigeons and the homeless. Cramped living conditions spilled mixed communities into the streets. I feel that these two periods of my life and the related experiences formed the foundation of my artistic sensibilities and visual aesthetics. When I moved to San Francisco in 1992, I was struck by the intensity of the light and the comparative lack of concrete. I now live in Fairfax and find myself drawn to the everyday scenes of the rural areas in Marin and more recently Sonoma -- the old buildings that have evaded development, the workings of ranch life, the old cars and trucks that continue on, or sometimes simply the play of light and shadow across planes of weathered color. My paintings are as much about the subjects I paint as they are about the effects of light within a particular scene. Though about half my work is done in the studio, I find that painting on location for hours reveals a level of color and detail that would go unnoticed by the camera and allows areas of interest and select details to evolve in a more natural way.
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The Nancy Dodds Gallery
