Oil on panel

Tim Woolcock b. 1952

The artist's fascination with the Moon started he was young and he then began to incorporate its unique qualities into his work. Artists have also over centuries featured this planet in their paintings. Woolcock's non representative style does leave a lot of room for Lunar possibilities and contrary to popular belief the Moon is not all white in colour.

Born in Lancashire, Tim Woolcock attended Arnold School in Blackpool before studying Art and Philosophy at Roehampton, University of London. He taught in London from 1974 to 1986, and ran a highly successful framing business, before returning to painting in the late 1990s. Woolcock’s paintings gained immediate popularity among collectors and he resumed his career as an artist in 1999.

 Woolcock was encouraged to paint from an early age and paid regular visits to the Grundy Art Gallery in Blackpool as a teenager. Influenced by artists prominent in the 1950s, in particular by members of the St Ives School such as William Scott and Ben Nicholson, his work features strong pigments and fractured geometric forms that are balanced, characteristically, by an equally refined and delicate use of colour. Writing in The Times in 2013, Joanna Pitman favourably described Woolcock as ‘one of our finest modern British colourists’. 

Dimensions:
915 x 1220 mm