Hi, I’m Tim and I’m an artist based in San Francisco.

Though I have been making art for as long as I can remember, I found my way to a committed art practice during the COVID-19 pandemic. In 2025 I left my career in tech to devote myself to painting full time.

Working figuratively in oil, I’m particularly drawn to painting because of its ability to hold a material record of human time and energy in a two dimensional object. My direct encounters with great works from art history have shown me the medium’s power to communicate care and attention across time and space.

Against the relentless speed and chaos of modern life, I view this kind of “slow” connection as radical and necessary to preserve our humanity. I aspire to take part in this tradition by making attentive, resonant work that both reflects what it’s like to be alive today and inspires questions about where we’re headed.

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