Artist Bio

Tim Waskett studied at Winchester School of Art in the late eighty’s and more recently attended the Turps Correspondence Course in 2022-23. He has exhibited in a variety of places including: 

• The Royal Overseas League 1995
• RA Summer Exhibition 2010, 2012, 2019, 2021, 2025
• Studio 1.1 2020-2025
• Lindon Hall Deal Winter Group Show 2020, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025
• 'Snag' group show at Terrace Gallery East London 2024
• 'It Rose it Fall' group show at Terrace Gallery East London 2024
• BEEP Painting Biennial 2024
• 'Ground' group show curated by coat at The Handbag Factory 2025
• ING Discerning Eye at The Mall Galleries selected by Polly Morgan 2025
• 'Borderlands' Thresholds in Painting group show at Pictorem Gallery 2025

 

Artist Statement

Tim Waskett's 'paintings' have always blurred the boundaries between traditional mediums. Most recently, he has introduced ceramic components to construct reliefs and create 'collage paintings'. Waskett is attracted to the ‘mashup,’ intrigued by the 'hodgepodge', and involved with 'the jumbling of ideas'. Ideas which somehow relate and can be made to 'sit well together' - but also are 'uneasy' and ask questions of each other. 

 

Differences in painterly approaches, tempo, textures, 'going off the edge' versus 'the contained', ‘size’ against 'scale', 'finish' versus ‘the unfinished’, 'the arbitrary and chance' against 'the ordered, the process, and control'. Waskett uses a painterly and intuitive, yet formally knowing, approach to 'forge' poetic and fully 'abstract' outcomes - from seemingly desperate, 'disconnected' and diverse starting points, processes, and materials.