Exhibitions:

• May 1984, Gallery 76,Toronto
• May 1984, Arisi Gallery, group show,Toronto
• June 1989, C'Est What?, recent work
• Dec. 1995,  group show of wildlife art, Burlington
• July-Aug. 2000, Simcoe Gallery, Toronto
• August 2001, 2002, 2003, Buckhorn Wildlife Art Festival
• March-April 2004 Patachou Patisserie, Toronto
• February 15-March 5 2005, Neilson Park Creative Centre, Etobicoke,The Nature of Spring
• January 5th-14th, 2006, Thursday Night Drawings, Toronto School of Art, 410 Adelaide Street West, Toronto, Ontario
• Dec. 6-12 2006, Korean Artists' Society of Canada Annual Exhibition, Lennox Gallery,12 Ossington Ave. Toronto
• July 6th, 7th and 8th 2007, Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition
• September 1st- 19th “Secret Landscapes” Muskoka Place Gallery, Port Carling, Ontario
• Jan 2nd-Feb 9th 2008, Zilberschmuck Art and Jewellery, 1852 Queen Street East, Toronto
• October, 2008, Group Show (guest artist), Trias Gallery, 80 Spadina Ave. Toronto

Upcoming:

• August 15th-21st New Paintings, Lakeshore Village Artists Co-op, 115 Birmingham St. Toronto, MPS (Multi-Purpose Space) New watercolours and oil paintings

 

 

About the Artist

Whether at home or abroad I find my inspiration in nature with all its beauty and complexity, the mosses and lichens on tree trunks, various plants or where sky meets water, all these things form the basis of my imagery. I seek out a broad spectrum of subject matter and like to impart a sense of place, of being there. A painting can be a journey in pictures, or a visual diary.

I graduated from the Ontario College of Art in 1984, where I studied for a year in Florence, Italy. While working as a cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, it’s through my love of painting that I have developed my personal vision as an artist.

My influences have been many, including such artist as Winslow Homer, Turner, Vermeer, the Surrealists, the Impressionists, and others. Realism is an obsessive tendency for me, as I like to follow the path of least resistance. Even though my paintings work on an abstract level I am driven to depict things as they really are, not just how they affect me.

Tim Hough, July 2007

Articles

"Tim Hough will be showing paintings, primarily landscape. His subjects are often local sites and when he can get there, the neighbouring north. His brush finds beauty in land that casual observers would relegate to scrub, unworthy of their cameras.

He says that he doesn't interpret what he paints. Perhaps not, but the evidence of a unique vision is all over these canvasses. What may at first glance appear to be representation, within a nanosecond of beginning to look, reveals much more.

Hough's greens are lush and deliciously real, like they are after a good rain. They are voluptuous, a generosity extended by him to the landscape. His shad¬ows are rich and exaggerated, the deepest of darks adding a wonderful mystery. I felt that I was looking at a chronicling of how we should see the landscape that surrounds us now, and experiencing the poignancy that is part of the evolution of things.”

The Riverdale Quarterly,
winter 2005

"Tim Hough's Yellow-Bellied Sapsucker is realism minus a lot of detail, a sort of abbreviated realism. He is more interested in the patterns and colour created by the moss on the tree"

The National Post,
Saturday, July 16th 2000

Tim Hough is represented by:

• The Prime Gallery, Toronto
• Gallery 133, Toronto