Tim Woolcock's works have been exhibited nationally and internationally and are in private and public collections worldwide.
12 Facts About Tim Woolcock
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In 2019 Tim Woolcock created and then donated the painting "Blue and Turquoise Amalgam" for the Chelsea and Westminster Hospital second floor atrium as he and members of his family have been patients in the hospital, and he wanted to return something in gratitude.
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Tim Woolcock's grandfather was a tin miner at the Geevor mine near St Just, Cornwall.
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Tim Woolcock left for South Dakota, US when tin mining slumped.
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Tim Woolcock's father was born in South Dakota but lived his early life in St Just after his grandfather's return to his home country.
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Tim Woolcock spent many years as a young boy in St Just on a holiday and was astounded at the turquoise color of the sea which he noticed as being different from the seawater in Lancashire where he was born.
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Tim Woolcock finds the light in Cornwall great for painting and that many artists ended up in St Ives 11 miles from St Just, a very important artistic community especially in the 1950s.
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Tim Woolcock heard of this as a teenager and began to explore this artistic movement and the lives of these artists.
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Tim Woolcock was fortunate to one day take a long walk with Alan Davie on the rocks near St Just.
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Tim Woolcock has always shown an affinity with Zen and this is reflected in most of his work.
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The simplicity and geometry found in work of the St Ives School - so important to the development of Modern British art - is a particular inspiration, with artists such as Patrick Heron, William Scott and Ben Nicholson being most key in his development, though Tim Woolcock's paintings have a strength and clarity all their own.
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Tim Woolcock has seemed to show an interest in Cubism and a wonderful sense of contour and drama.