In 1964 Tim moved to Nottingham College of Art to study for the Diploma in Art and Design. “Teachers were practicing artists who taught by showing and doing.” Tim speaks highly of all the staff there. Materials included wood, clay, plaster and mixed media, which was typical for the period influenced by the Bauhaus. Life drawing and sculpture from the figure were important. The Foundation year at CSA included classes in drawing, colour theory, painting, printmaking, graphic design, sculpture, calligraphy, 3D construction and art history. I was eager to go to a place where learning required making things rather than remembering facts.”Ĭlasses in different materials /wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TA-extract-2-1.mp3 I hadn’t learned anything, so I was keen to start. “I was relieved to get away, young for my age, and creative. Relief on leaving the Leys /wp-content/uploads/2018/12/TA-extract-1-1.mp3Īccordingly he left The Leys early moving to the two-year Art Foundation Course. He also suggested that Tim should apply for a place in Cambridge School of Art. He scraped into the sixth form with the minimum pass mark, where his talent for drawing was noticed by his biology teacher, who gave him his first opportunity for book illustration. He comments dryly that neither school did him irreparable damage. He remembers it as “the only thing that I had a liking for.” He went on to The Leys School nearby. Art was an optional extra set aside for Friday afternoons. Faith’s prep school in Cambridge from the age of seven to thirteen. Tim’s life-long love of the countryside was kindled by these early experiences. Holidays were spent in a caravan in the Essex countryside or camping on the Suffolk coast. A wind-up gramophone and a wireless sufficed for news and entertainment. Tim remembers the garden as “glorious for children.” His parents kept chickens and bees, which helped to mitigate the shortages of post-war rationing. The family lived in a rambling vicarage with attics and box rooms full of curiosities from distant parts of the world. She ran the household and organised parish events. His clergyman father thought of himself as “the last of the parson naturalists.” He was an ornithologist and writer who also had a talent for drawing.
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