Timothy Michael Bryans came to painting late in life and professes to be on a steep learning curve. In spite of his late attendance to the palette, he is well known in the UK for a variety of styles ranging from the ‘fruit and flowers’ genre through to portraits, landscapes, abstracts and political comment.

“There simply is not enough time in which to hone my (basic) skills and paint the zillions of subjects and objects that I wish to. If I could paint as fast and as well as I see these ideas and visions in my mind, I would require an Amazon warehouse size gallery to show them” he says.

Working mainly in oils and occasionally in oil collage, his art encompasses the banal and also the historical, both from a personal and a public point of view.

He states that it is impossible to have a favourite artist when there are so many fabulous painters out there, and when so very many artists have gone before. But to name a few……

Paul Nash, Euan Uglow, John Curran, Jon Doran, Andrew Wyeth, Francisco De Zurbaran, Francis Bacon, Gerhardt Richter, Sorolla, Cézanne, Howard Hodgkin, Bellini, Ramon Casas