Inside Out by Tim Moorhead

Tim Moorhead works in a variety of media and has over fifty five years experience working professionally in the arts. His work is represented in National, State and Regional Galleries as well as major private and corporate collections both in Australia and overseas. Artworks of Tim's are also represented in various art magazines and texts. Locally, Tim has shown at Dubbo Regional Gallery, Cowra Regional Gallery. Works are held in Dubbo, Cowra and Orange Regional Gallery collections. He has local family connections and presently lives and works on the Far South Coast at Tathra, NSW. Soft pastels in the form of drawing sticks provide the opportunity to work with unadulterated pure colour. The pastels are applied to an artist quality support that has a rough surface where the surface tooth captures the dry pigments as they are applied. This is then covered and prenatally sealed with clear transparent varnish allowing each colour to remain 100% pure. The Chair series revolves around personal belongings and how they reflect the owners’ personality. Chairs all have individual characteristics depending on design, materials that make them up, age, colour and where they are placed. Everyone has a favourite chair or two. These are a few of Tim's. Each painting in this series is an exploration in mark-making on heavy gauge artist quality handmade paper.