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 (17)
Tanialmeida
interesting dinamics u have here! i wonder how it would be like to see the world upside down ...
Vandaler
Excellent. Beautifully ugly and gracefully creepy.
SirJohn
This is really interesting to me Jim... the more I look at it, the more interesting it gets. Hats off to you for yet another digital wonder!
crrunchyfrog
Mmmmm Chemicals. Jim? I think you've got something in your eye mate...L Beautiful work :D
AxoNe.FLuX
this is just awsome...the best yet ....and its exactly how i feel ^,,^
cynlee
case of droopy eye perhaps, well seen seeing eye :)
borsy
Excellent image!!
mooncat
That is really cool although a little sick, like dropping acid into your eye.
daeve
This is awesome, Syn! Nice work!!!!
irix.
ty so much jim i luv it kiks ass hugzzzzzzzzzzzzz ty again!
gunsan
Soooo...you look at the world with new eyes now?? Creepy in a very beautifully way.
jrulier
Upside down... Funny, but so pink.
gallimel
"Model: me" ;) that made me grin with tenderness. You, teh shiest of man, are becoming so sweetly confident that you open show yourself. I love this. I long for the day when you'll be my model for art too. It's gonna be soon. This eye is very striking. Lisa inspires us all so well, after all :) hugs to both :)
Synapse
Actually Meli... yes I've been shy, I still am a bit, yet it's never bothered me in the slightest having my photo taken, or indeed taking the photos myself. I feel a little sorry for people who shy away from the camera because it's never fazed me at all. It's just now that I've bought my digicam that I can do it properly, with decent results :-)
Odious
Pretty cool idea... the blurred edge kinda simulates looking through a key hole or hole in a wall... cool image :)
syndroid
Hmmm...this might be a scientific breakthrough...liquid vision...after all it's hard to destroy liquid...although extreme heat and cold can tamper the vision of course...every idea needs altering
tuerda
After being subjected to extreme temperatures and chemicals of diverse descriptions, the skin around the eye has become completely melted and corroded, but despite this, the eye is still able to see.