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.
Comments (16)
gattone_blu
Original
spidermurph
Dude, this is beautiful. Like you are squeezing through from another dimension. Murph
Naichan
It would be an interesting challange to construct a marionette like this with disarticulated joints and expressionistic deformations. But it's too anonymous looking to inspire a pygmalion. Avant-garde automaton...
crrunchyfrog
Great image my dear friend! I think all of us know this feeling, not a nice one, but beautifully expressed hugest hugs. Thank you so much for creating and sharing :)
ARTWITHIN
I really love the color dynamics in this. The lighting is very bold. It really looks like you are sitting on the wall. Surreal! I also think the scallop effect is great, adds interest. Great work Jim!
erlandpil
Nice picture erland
inkraven
He sits. Rather he floats, within a miasma. Still I can make out the ever fluxuating colours and textures of his aura ; there is warmth here. It stretches around him like ice holds a leaf in perfect youth long after winter has wrought its sleep upon the land. I wince at his painful articulations, writhing myself as his skin and spirit confront his environment. Shrinking away from the Sunlight with its false promises, its anti glow. The air is hot, and those beams of light cut into our flesh. And so his hands go to his throat, fingers dipping into flesh to try and find the will to breathe in.. breathe out. I would give him gills, if I could. Anna.
Dendrite
We cannot hide from ourselves our own vulnerabilities. We endure them until one day we become enured.
graemeb
This would look realy good in oils Jim but you know me can't put the paint down. Realy nice image.
NekhbetSun
Fantastic as always !
zzzak
It's beautiful :-)
McDod
Damn those mushrooms! lol :)
rudiruth
I agree with greame here. great
zoren
cool!!!
mysnapz
I like the hard shell feel to this, like a suit of armour or a lobster perhaps it shows a protective personality.
ACS-001
On an emotional level there's this crushing insecurity, and on an aesthetic level it looks like someone tried to make a three-dimensional origami knight. Very cool.