Tim Foxen is a London based artist working across a range of 2D and 3D formats and techniques. The work shown in this site covers a period from 2018, when he began a shift in practice while employed in teaching. In the last two years he has divided his time between a drawing and painting studio and HausPrint print studio in Stockwell, South London.

Foxen works through a constructive, additive process which explores the expressive potentials of translation across borders of mind and body, memory and experience, and the wider dichotomy between human activity and nature. He casts abstracted visual fragments from manufactured and natural worlds into compositions or ‘constructions’ often suggesting architecture, landscape or organic forms within an alternate realm. Drawings and prints depict imagined, evocative spaces and structures which (informed by art history) seek to reconcile disparate and antagonsitic connotations. Each piece is seen as a ‘visual object’, and is the result of extended experimentation, incorporating forms and surfaces from previous works in an on-going sequence of reiteration and interpretation within self-imposed formal limitations. These ‘crystalisations’ reach across time, memory and psychological states, and are seen as analogous to music.

In recent work, relief and collagraph printmaking using plates made from liquid and resistant materials are used to layer and juxtapose motifs, papers, colour and texture. Using successive passes of the press roller, inflections and shifts are exploited to heighten expression, as in musical improvisation.

All works are for sale. Price on application.

Most works are unique. Some small, variable editions are indicated where applicable.

Contact:

Instagram: @tim_foxens Email: foxentim@gmail.com

Education

BA (Hons) Fine Art - Kingston

MA History of Art - Birkbeck