Jim Tetlow
Born 1974, UK
I like ambiguity in art. Uncertainty. What has to conform to the limits of our reality? Metal, glass and flesh can merge seamlessly, as if the surreal worlds and the life forms within are one and the same, and yet at odds sometimes. I rarely seek to endow my works with any "message". I am more interested in people's personal responses.
I'm a multimedia artist working in fine art (including sculpture), digital art, graphic design and various forms inbetween, also illustrating book covers and numerous CD covers. I also work in musical soundscaping, both solo and in group projects, of which there are many releases. I'd like to say a big thanks to everyone here who has supported me in my work and beyond since I began posting in June 2001. Too many to mention, you all know who you are... I'm meeting very special people here :-)
Update 01-08-05: I've been given a 4 page feature article in Issue 3 of the new media magazine Contour based in Atlanta, Georgia. The images printed very well and they did me proud.
Update 21-03-06: I've been spending the last 6 months living in New South Wales, Australia. Inspiring place! Also in the process of illustrating the book covers for a series of Japanese books called Hikishio no Toki (Time of the Ebb Tide) by Mayumura Taku - to date I've completed the first two of the five volumes. I've recently been returning to traditional media as well as producing the usual digital art, and contributed a sculptural canvas to a recent local exhibition. Link: Saatchi Gallery webspace
Update 09-01-21: I hadn't even logged in for some years. It's weird nipping back here after not even posting for 13 years, like revisiting your old school incognito. As I'm not active here anymore I wonder if anyone will even see this again besides me.
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Comments (19)
shutterb
Awesome... Great colors... The whispy vines are cool... Terrific
mooreno
Has a nice feel to it like the warm fuzzies! very nice. I have only one suggestion when I am not sure about it I put it in a special file/wait a week and look at it again/or turn it into B&W and look at the balance/
Synapse
Good advice there David, thank you :-)
hewsan
Like it, brings to mind the works of Rodney Matthews... Find it pleasing as an abstract, but as Matthews is one of my demi-gods... feel there should be more... as if this is the background that is waiting the players so to speak...
crrunchyfrog
Hey there! You didn't tell me this was 'finished'....but maybe I've given you enough of my advice sniggers, even so, I really do think that those top tendrils need extending, maybe into a contrasting hue, otherwise, I do love this so very much big hugs. Great work my friend, wonderful to see you mastering traditional mediums :) Thank you as always for sharing all that you do huge hugs xxx
unstrung65
...well - coming upon it cold - it strikes me as a detail from a larger picture....which, of course it isn't, - but it doesn't give me a feeling of completeness - (though viewing at actual size, and in the flesh - might give a different feel )... hard to say --- but at this size it feels like a promising ground waiting for some future catalyst to make it all coalesce
FantastArt
Fantastic! These vines with the litle buds are cool.They look a bit like some kind of alien eggs... and I love the soft colors!
erlandpil
Wonderful again from you
rudiruth
beautiful soft colors here. To me a piece for peaceful moments
Naichan
Ah, when is a work finished? The eternal question! I'm poor at deciding the answer. That's why I spend a whole year making a doll sculpture! If I'm unsure about a work, I do as David does and forget about it for a week or so and return to it afresh. If I'm still not sure, I do some more on it or do something else. As regards "Drop", I was immediately impressed, specially by the left-hand side of the canvas, which seems perfectly finished and beautifully rendered. If anything needs to be done, I would suggest the right side, and then only minor details. Great to see you working on canvas, anyway! I look forward to seeing what you do, if anything :-)
NekhbetSun
Fantastic and imaginative...love it !
SoulSearcherr
I like the softness and the beautiful colors..is very soft and touches one
titta
Sorry I'm this late, Jim! I love to see a Synaptic view made with acrylics! And the view is fascinating; beautiful and also thought-provoking. It tells me something about closeness, something about the need to come closer,; something nostalgic too (maybe the colours, tones). You've got some suggestions; I'd like to put my spoon into soup too (do you use that phraze in English? lol) - I'd love to see the left bottom corner emphasized more, somehow I feel that'd make even more power to the movement towards the focal point. But actually I think you'll find the best solution after looking this already splendid painting again after a while. Thanks Jim, for this beauty, and for this moment with exploring the view you created. A great morning start! huge hugs:-)
abmlober
I enjoy this colour poem, which is far from what you normally show in your gallery.
visionart
Fantastic Work Of Art Jim..Has A Nice Feeling All Round!!DIANE603
It's fabulous the way it is!!
morin3000
I like the photograph How you, I would like to have this genius creative Which allows you transformed your luminous colors, in beauty An image has five stars Have an awesome day *****
()ThanksIO4
I love the overall look and colours. Also the contrast between the soft pastel and shape of the right side against the darker blue and angular shape of the tree, and then you have the whispy white branch shapes meeting the angular tree - it's as though this is an expression of duality. Lovely!!
Hopey44
I love it as it is - as always with your work, but often when I've done a piece and dont want to abandon completely, I often turn it on its side, or upside down and look at it again. Very often I see it in a new light and can tell where to go from there. doesnt always work but always worth a look!