Loud It Up

Sim Smith is delighted to present 'Loud It Up', Tim Garwood’s third solo exhibition with the gallery. The exhibition continues Garwood’s exploration of the rich possibilities of painting through diverse aesthetic strategies and materials that have become synonymous with his practice including glass, glitter, jute and lace. The paintings in this exhibition mark a moving on, or rather a moving through, his painterly language with the inclusion of further materials; dried flowers, splintered wood and plant fronds, denoting a body of work that is unconsciously but undeniably, deeply rooted in the new surroundings of his Somerset studio in rural England,...

Tim Garwood (b, 1984, Epsom, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset

Tim Garwood is a painter of intuition and spontaneity. Often gleaning materials from the streets and from his studio to construct paintings, the works are alive with a real and potent force. He paints on IKEA tablecloths, sacking, fragments of canvas on the floor, wood, lace, d...

Tim Garwood (b, 1984, Epsom, UK) lives and works between London and Somerset

Tim Garwood is a painter of intuition and spontaneity. Often gleaning materials from the streets and from his studio to construct paintings, the works are alive with a real and potent force. He paints on IKEA tablecloths, sacking, fragments of canvas on the floor, wood, lace, denim, shoelace, glass, exploring a visual language across paintings, drawings and mixed media works. Garwood tests each material’s ability and performance under the weight of studio debris and heavy swathes of paint. His abstraction is one of tactile immediacy, his vocabulary truthful and instantaneous, oscillating freely between suggestions of place, collective experience and association. His paintings constantly investigate the ways that colours exist in relation to each other, the weight and capability of his materials and the transformative capabilities and exploration of painting itself.