Tim Craighead
Orchard Series, Swarm , 2018
60 x 54
in
oil, alkyd on canvas
Craighead’s process is rigorous. He is plagued by demanding demons – a kind of honesty police. He is skilled, both as a painter and a printmaker and could easily produce pleasing works, but it is that something just beyond reach that compels him. Constructing paintings which operate on the borders of cognition provides an open field upon which a multitude of memories and meanings might be triggered. These paintings contain personal narratives, but in their abstraction, he hopes to create enough room that others might be provoked to enter them with their own memories.
