I was born and raised in central Kentucky and received a BS in geology at Western Kentucky University and a JD at the Brandeis School of Law at the University of Louisville. My first foray into the visual arts occurred when I received a Polaroid Swinger for my 11th birthday (oh, how I begged for that camera), and I have loved photography ever since. Most of my photographs these days are of the critters roaming and flying around my home in Crestwood (just outside Louisville), Kentucky, where I live with my husband and our three rescue dogs.
I took some group painting lessons in 1995, then struck out on my own. When the opportunities presented themselves, I took a few painting, photography, art history, and arts administration courses at the university level. I am also the owner of Opal Grove Home, a small business featuring home fragrances and other "remarkable creature comforts."
Gallery representation: Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile, Louisville, KY
Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH
Membership: Portrait Society of America
Louisville Visual Art
I took some group painting lessons in 1995, then struck out on my own. When the opportunities presented themselves, I took a few painting, photography, art history, and arts administration courses at the university level. I am also the owner of Opal Grove Home, a small business featuring home fragrances and other "remarkable creature comforts."
Gallery representation: Craft(s) Gallery & Mercantile, Louisville, KY
Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH
Membership: Portrait Society of America
Louisville Visual Art
ARTIST STATEMENT
Valerie Timmons is a Louisville-based artist whose genre-spanning work includes landscape, portraiture, still life, minimalism and geometric abstraction. While her paintings may vary wildly in style and even mood, their unifying tonal element is a rich emotional resonance that finds as much beauty in the turbulence of a non-representational tempest of form and color (‘What Gives?’ 2018) as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life such as ‘Three Plums on a Plate’ (2018).
Ms. Timmons is an instinctual painter who follows that which catches her eye and trusts her gut during execution, while for the most part bypassing analytical function. External visual forms, however, serve less as models than as the stimuli that conjure imagery already inhabiting her inner visual memory. Working mostly in acrylic and/or oil on canvas, Timmons’ preference ratio of line to color may shift from painting to painting, depending on subject and mode. What remains constant, though, are the underlying energetic properties that evoke the surge of life currents embodied by even apparently inanimate forms.
Timmons came to painting relatively late, in 1995, having previously concentrated on her considerable talents in the realms of music and theater. She is also accomplished at photography, a medium she frequently uses as a springboard for her paintings.
Valerie Timmons is a Louisville-based artist whose genre-spanning work includes landscape, portraiture, still life, minimalism and geometric abstraction. While her paintings may vary wildly in style and even mood, their unifying tonal element is a rich emotional resonance that finds as much beauty in the turbulence of a non-representational tempest of form and color (‘What Gives?’ 2018) as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life such as ‘Three Plums on a Plate’ (2018).
Ms. Timmons is an instinctual painter who follows that which catches her eye and trusts her gut during execution, while for the most part bypassing analytical function. External visual forms, however, serve less as models than as the stimuli that conjure imagery already inhabiting her inner visual memory. Working mostly in acrylic and/or oil on canvas, Timmons’ preference ratio of line to color may shift from painting to painting, depending on subject and mode. What remains constant, though, are the underlying energetic properties that evoke the surge of life currents embodied by even apparently inanimate forms.
Timmons came to painting relatively late, in 1995, having previously concentrated on her considerable talents in the realms of music and theater. She is also accomplished at photography, a medium she frequently uses as a springboard for her paintings.
