Biography
Tim Mitchell was born in New Zealand in 1973. His youth was spent immersed in the country’s majestic lands and oceans and through the years his love of surfing, sailing and hiking brought him into close contact with the country's unique, rich and diverse flora and fauna. His love of the outdoors carried on into his later years and in 1996 he obtained his Bachelors of Forestry Science Degree. Then in 2001 Tim gained a Post Graduate Diploma in Teaching which lead him on to teach in NZ, London, Hong Kong and Portuguese schools. He has travelled and explored extensively to many countries through the years
Eventually there came a point when the balance between the teaching and the art overturned and he followed his true nature to became a full time fine print artist in 2015.
Tim was fortunate early on in his printmaking to come under the experience, expertise and guidance of master printmaker Nick Richards (Royal Society of Painter-Printmakers) who has led him on his etching path,still to this day at Thames-side Print Studios in London.
Tim is a member of Greenwich Printmakers Association, and Southbank Print-makers Association in London. He is based in Greenwich, southeast London and prints at the Thames-side print studio where his own studio is also located.
These days Tim’s year is divided between London, Kent and Northern Portugal.
He regularly exhibits in London and South-East England.
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Artist Statement
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I think my aquatint etching print ‘A Screaming Frenzy of Swifts ‘ captures a great deal about my Printmaking art. Capturing wildlife in the split second amidst a myriad of a thousand things going on at the same time.
My work draws on my own experiences in the wild-outdoors and I like to capture the brief, infinitely small second of recognition, harmony between the bird and the observer.
I am drawn to places of open spaces where birds migrate, branches sway, waves crash and storms rage and in my times there I construct and bring ideas together for the possibility of prints. I return over and over to these places not just for my printmaking practise but for the inherent necessity of my being.
