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About The Artist: Timothy Thompson

Tim Thompson is a contemporary British marine painter. Using thin washes of oil paint, Thompson slowly builds up his highly detailed paintings of maritime battle scenes and billowy sails. “Color and movement are vital components in my work,” Thompson has said. “It is important that I see exactly how the sails of a yacht are formed when she is rounding a mark or how the ocean appears during a storm.” Born in 1951 in Hull,...