This class explores the continuing relevance and power of the personal mark as the foundation of the painting and drawing. Participants examine how this hand-made characteristic, combined with physicality of materials, can become a vehicle for creativity that roots communication back into lived experience while offering the possibility of more expansive and accelerated consciousness. Tim and Lala work individually with each participant, focusing on their personal vision. No experience needed: open to all.
Notes: Water-based materials only; no oil paint or water-based oil paint.
Tim Hawkesworth grew up in Ireland, immigrated to the US in 1977. He has been showing in New York since the early 1980s as well as other cities around the country and in Europe. His work has received considerable critical attention including reviews in the New York Times, Art News, the New Yorker, the LA Times, the Boston Globe and the Irish Times. His writing has also been published by several art magazines. His work is in many public and private collections including the Brooklyn Museum, the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, the Irish Museum of Modern Art and the Dublin City Hugh Lane Gallery. He is currently represented by Littlejohn Contemporary. His work was featured in a solo exhibit at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin in 2008 and again in 2014. He was included with three other artists in “The Quick and the Dead” in the Dublin Hugh Lane Gallery in Dublin. This exhibition picked up on a show of these artists in Boston in the 1980s, called “Four Irish Expressionists.” The Museum recently purchased a painting which is currently on display. Tim is writing a book called “The Secret Joy of Painting”. Timothy Hawkesworth
