Country Road, Eastern Iowa Painting

I am self-taught. I read Frederic Taubes for technique, John Ruskin, art theory, and then a great deal of art history. I paint in oils, oil pastels, watercolor, and mixed media. My inclinations are anti-romantic and anti-effect. I find myself responding to some trends which I find over-composed or predictably color-enhanced. My work is best categorized as realistic, impressionistic, or, surprisingly to myself, expressionistic. Growth, discovery, and communication are the goals. I sign my work, TIM, because those are my initials--not because I want to be a one-name artist. My middle name is Irving.