Tim Sandys has been working in a variety of media for ten years. Largely self taught, his earliest works were inspired by his experience as a stage technician for the MacRobert Arts Centre painting backcloths for stage productions, designing sets and lighting. After moving to Scotland's capital, he worked for the National Museum's digital archive, restoring and enhancing digitised artwork and historical material. Among a varied collection, he worked with the Burrell Collection's Impressionist paintings as well as the work of Scotland's contemporary painters. This experience is apparent in his work - the attention to a precise finish and experiments with the tools of image manipulation and sculpture lend strength and immediacy to his compositions.

Tim with Sunken Head, 2011

Returning to full-time education, he is currently studying at Dundee's Duncan of Jordanstone College of Art & Design as well as pursuing tattoo art with Tribe Body Manipulations. Few works are begun without extensive research and experimentation with photographic images, countless drawings, reworked studies and trials with basic materials. The printer and the mouse pointer become studio tools as much as the paintbrush and the oily rag. His prolific output focuses on elemental themes of perspective, depth within light, tactile sensation, textures and the distilled forms of nature and civilization. In 2009, he was awarded the Phillip Holmes Memorial Prize. His Negate series of paintings have been selected for the recent publication: 100 Artists of the Male Figure: A Contemporary Anthology of Painting, Drawing, and Sculpture. Tim accepts commissioned pieces as well as photographic and design work. Follow Tim on