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Original Tim Lee Oil on Canvas
This Large (4 Way) oil painting is on unstretched canvas size 44" x 44" .
ALL ABOUT 4-WAY PAINTINGS
One day I walked into my living room and realized I'd become so familiar
with the artwork hanging on my walls that I no longer paid attention to
them. In my mind, that's not what art should be about: Art should
constantly confront, and one should learn something new, see something
different with each confrontation. A fresh glimpse away from the ordinary.
Just for the heck of it, I arbitrarily stepped up to one of the paintings
hanging on my wall and turned it upside down. Bingo, it was like I had
slipped into a totally different room -- or, perhaps stumbled down a
wonderful rabbit hole. I flip-flopped every painting in the room regardless
of subject matter. Upside-down portraits hung side-by-side with topsy-turvy
landscapes. Later that evening, I walked to my studio and began painting an
image that was intended to be hung in any direction, a "4-WAY PAINTING". It
was a challenging experience.
I call these paintings "20-Minute Paintings", because I learned to force
myself to rotate the canvas every 20 minutes or so while actively painting
on them. Back in the day, I used a chess-game timer set to 20 minutes. Then,
one day my studio was broken in to, and the timer was stolen, along with
several still-wet paintings, including my very first 4-WAY PAINTING. Maybe
by a harried rabbit looking for more than a timepiece. Go figure.
At any rate, "MAXINE GEN 001" is my latest 20-Minute, 4-Way painting. A
simple twist in any direction and one's living environment is immediately
transformed. Over and over again. A wonderful conversation piece.
--Tim Lee
Author, artist, graphics designer, and professional photographer, Tim Lee was born in 1949. Painlessly assimilated into a typical military family, he decided to play hooky and go fishing while attending day-2 of kindergarten in Yokohama, Japan. Fifty-something years later, Tim is still looking for ways to go fishing.
After teaching photography at Virginia's Tidewater Community College and graduating from Old Dominion University, Tim launched a career in television: news cameraman, editor, writer, PM Magazine story producer, creative services and research director, senior planner for Arbitron Television Ratings, and finally -- a programmer. Tim now lives on Lake Gaston, North Carolina as a more or less retired freelance technical writer, painter, graphics designer, Roanoke Rapids Daily Herald The Lake Magazine writer-photographer, blogger (http://www.simplytim.wordpress.com) and -- for the past ten years -- daily columnist for the Recipe du Jour family of Ezines, where he’s better known as "Simply Tim".
I've been an artist since I began finger-painting in kindergarten, my enthusiasm continually growing way past graduating from Old Dominion University's art program in the Early 1970s. In 1974 one of my paintings, Plant & Dresser,
took First Place Painting in the prestigious 1st Annual Stockley Gardens Annual Ghent Arts Festival. In that same show, I also won First Place, Photography and Second Place, Drawing.
One year later, another one of my oil paintings, “D” was accepted by the Tidewater Artist's Association, 23rd Annual Biennial Irene Leach Exhibition and displayed in the Chrysler Museum, Norfolk, Virginia, May-June 1975.
During that same period, I founded the Tidewater Picture Company, a custom photographic processing laboratory specializing in high-end custom printing and film developing services. Concurrently, I instructed advanced, beginning, and intermediate photography classes at the Tidewater Community College, Chesapeake, Virginia. These three disciplines -- painting, drawing, and photography -- eventually slammed headlong into years of experience as a free-lance graphic artist. A perfect marriage of techniques and technologies. The end product is what you see here. I've been around for a while, and -- by golly, I'm proud of it. I hope you like what you see.
--Tim
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