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 more recent artists, from Guthrie to Barbara Rae. This experience is apparent in his work - the attention to a precise palette and experiments with the tools of image manipulation lend strength and immediacy to his compositions.

Now in the west end of Glasgow, his studio is cramped - housing large canvases with several paintings in progress at any one time. Few works are begun without extensive research and experimentation with photographic images, countless drawings and reworked studies. The printer and the mouse pointer become tools as much as the paintbrush and the oily rag. His prolific output is at once traditional and modern - focusing on elemental themes of perspective, depth within light and the distilled forms of nature and civilization.

"...regardless of the techniques involved, I always find myself working towards a painting - as if the painting is somehow the sum of the visual image. I'll draw something, scan it, play with it, print it out - and then I'll scribble on that print, copy it, trace it, twist it, mangle it with the computer... but it almost always makes its way onto a canvas in the end ..."