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 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.
Gallery representation: Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH (adcfineart.com)
KORE Gallery, Louisville, KY (koreartgallery.com)
Membership: Louisville Visual Art
The Kentucky Crafted Program (painting)
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.
Gallery representation: Art Design Consultants, Cincinnati, OH (adcfineart.com)
KORE Gallery, Louisville, KY (koreartgallery.com)
Membership: Louisville Visual Art
The Kentucky Crafted Program (painting)
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 as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life.
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 and digital work.
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 as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life.
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 and digital work.
Special Announcement - 2.27.22
For awhile now, I've felt a bit directionless artistically. This lack of direction prompted a heartfelt entreaty to the universe, and it got back to me in the form of an article in the New York Times. Long story short, the focus of my art will, henceforth, be on trees. Regardless of subject matter, 10% of the sale of any of my work that incorporates a tree product will be donated to One Tree Planted (OneTreePlanted.org), a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to global reforestation efforts; every dollar donated plants a tree. Think about it . . . all my paintings are on canvas with wooden stretchers, my cards are printed on paper, my coasters have cork backing, etc. And don't be surprised if even more of my work features trees. I want to raise awareness about trees and their contributions to the health of the planet, and the best way to do it is with my work.
For awhile now, I've felt a bit directionless artistically. This lack of direction prompted a heartfelt entreaty to the universe, and it got back to me in the form of an article in the New York Times. Long story short, the focus of my art will, henceforth, be on trees. Regardless of subject matter, 10% of the sale of any of my work that incorporates a tree product will be donated to One Tree Planted (OneTreePlanted.org), a 501(c)(3) non-profit dedicated to global reforestation efforts; every dollar donated plants a tree. Think about it . . . all my paintings are on canvas with wooden stretchers, my cards are printed on paper, my coasters have cork backing, etc. And don't be surprised if even more of my work features trees. I want to raise awareness about trees and their contributions to the health of the planet, and the best way to do it is with my work.
