TIM SUMMERTON Floating Forest
13 October - 5 November 2011
Tim Summerton has been drawing inspiration from the Australian landscape for over a decade in his soulful abstract paintings. Working with a wet-on-wet oil application process, he manipulates the slow drying effect of the medium to great effect in his layered canvasses. By working with combinations of saturated bright tones and more gentle hues Summerton allows form to emerge as a luminous force from the depths of his complex surfaces.
In his first solo show in Asia, Floating Forest, Summerton contemplates the pristine tangle of the abundant strangling vines that inhabit and consume the
tall trees occupying the steep hillside of his home in Kangaroo Valley. Working from the memory of his frequent visits, Summerton conjures undulating
looping lines with rubber blades in a continual process of addition and subtraction that simultaneously portray the rhythmical vegetation and ghosts, or trace marks, of recollection.
Tim Summerton completed a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Newcastle, Sydney in 1998 and an Honours degree in Fine Art from the University of New South
Wales in 2000. Summerton has been exhibiting with Tim Olsen Gallery in Sydney since 2002 where he launched his solo career and has had several solo
shows since. He was the 2009 runner up for the prestigious Kings School Art Prize. His work is included in the Macquarie Bank’s corporate collection and in
numerous private collections in Australia, the US, Britain and Asia.
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