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’s work is created through a constructive, additive process which casts abstracted visual fragments from manufactured and sometimes natural worlds into compositions or ‘constructions’ often suggesting architecture, landscape or organic forms. Drawings and prints depict imagined, evocative spaces which may reference other art historical periods and idioms to create a tension. Each piece is seen as a ‘visual object’, and is the result of extended experimentation, incorporating forms and surfaces from previous works to augment the visual vocabulary used. They attempt a ‘crystalisation’ across time, memory and psychological states. Music and its equivalence is often an important, but not literal element in this creative process.

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