Tim Appleby

I trained as a painter at the Central School of Art in London during the mid-seventies. Abstract painting was then the current orthodoxy. Almost all the tutors were abstract painters, people such as William Turnbull, Paul Huxley, John Plumb, John Copnall, Mark Vaux. And all the exhibitions in the galleries at that time were full of exciting new abstraction. It was during this period that I first began my life-long conversation with paint: what it can do, what it can say, what it can mean.

Each of my paintings is an exploration of my relationship to paint and painting, a new journey into the world of colour and form. The amazing conjuring trick of art is that it makes meaning where there was none before. The meaning is entirely an aesthetic meaning, it cannot be articulated in words. The meaning is in the paint.