Tim Bruce is a Melbourne based artist. Tim is a qualified meteorologist and has worked many years for the Bureau of Meteorology. He now works part time so he can devote time to developing his art practice which he came to him relatively late. While maintaining an interest in art throughout his life to date, his creative outlet has been various architectural renovations and extensions in Perth and here in Melbourne.

Tim works out of a studio space in the iconic Nicholas Building on the corner of Swanston Street and Flinders Lane in the centre of Melbourne. He also coordinates exhibitions of other artists in a neighbouring Gallery space – Pigment Gallery. The building occasionally has open studio evenings when a number of the artists and artisans open their doors to the public and have their works on display.

Tim expresses himself primarily through oil on canvas works in the landscape genre but does also have a strong drawing aspect to his art practice. His application of paint creates evocative, moody and energetic paintings that are part real and part mind.

Having looked to the skies for most of his working life, he now attempts to capture the weather and its interaction with the landscape. The current body of work reflects time spent in the varied landscapes of Victoria and Tasmania. His influences include Peter Booth, Bill Henson, Fred Williams and Gerhardt Richter.

The land, water and weather are particularly hot topics currently with hot debate surrounding climate change, water management and clean power issues on the political agenda. Tim subtly explores some of these issues in his art practice. More readily though, his landscapes express the elemental and raw nature of the natural world we live in.

Further works can be viewed at his studio or through pigmentGALLERY.

For more on Tim Bruce see http://www.pigmentgallery.com.au