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 (25)
nfredman
Oh, boy, have i been there! Another great image. Thank you!
FearaJinx
I'm the first to comment! WHOA! Awesome work!
Synapse
No you're not! As the wise old saying goes, "shit happens" ;-)
crrunchyfrog
Maybe the time wasn't right...maybe the solutions or ideas weren't as applicable as you thought...maybe I'm indecisive or making excuses, its irrelevant when you create what you do. Are your creations a burst bubble of perceived intertia maybe ;) Hugest hugs Great work buddy :D
Gregor.Scharff
i am not the first but not the last ;)) great one Jim .you show your inside to outside thats WOWWW . I love your style . thanks for this wonderful one. :)))))
RajDArge
poor mr fearajinx. anyway fab pic. the fonts are very apt. Hamlet would have been proud!
bevchiron
Been there, done that, got the T shirt but could never create an image that expresses the feeling so perfectly!
cynlee
an image we have all felt one time or another, powerful & evocative... it touches me... tomorrow i will acomplish something :]
disa
Good work, nice liquid shapes in a simple composition. Really good one, and, as always, "synaptian".
kohina
And when there's too much information, one doesn't know what is true anymore, typical to our time. Altough, maybe I just think too postmodernly, or maybe it's the low level of seratonine in my brains...
Synapse
kohina: damn right on both counts, I believe ;-)
gunsan
Thought I already had commented this, but apparently i am good at procrastination :-) I can see what you mean with the links to my last image, but I can't see so much desperation in this, more a wish to withdraw from everything, maybe "back to the womb". The rhombic shape (that I love) gave me that association. Love it!!
Synapse
Yeah, as I said, your image is much more desolate ;-)
That "withdrawing" is well summarised in the following quotation:
Stop the world, I want to get off.
tibet2004uk
Oh yes! Like this one! Wonderful light, colors and pose! And yea, I guess we all had that feeling at one point or another indeed! Very frustrating one... :) Big hugs my sweet Jim, Pascale.
syndroid
You can't have too much freedom and too many things to do at the same time. If you have too many things to do, then you are constraint by it, thus limiting your freedom. If you have too much freedom it means that you have not restraining from too many things to do.
jyriviuhko
Fantastic and illustrative... fits perfect with the text!!
Synapse
@Rik: I was referring to the freedom you have when your life isn't predetermined by wife and kids and other responsibilities, yadda yadda yadda, basically you still have options but this doesn't stop you having things to do. Of course you must then prioritise, but it can be easy to get bogged down to the point where you don't do this. Totally illogical but... well hey. This image is about what happens when you become bogged down emotionally, and the vicious circle it entails.
Heart'Song
I absolutely LOVE this one, Jim
DawnStar
I can relate to this and feel the picture looks the way I feel when it happens to me. I can have the whole day to do SOMETHING, ANYTHING! I look at my choices. I have SO MANY THINGS to do it overwhelms me so I sit down and do nothing. It happens. :)
Synapse
Yep, sure does :P
cbender
a great one jim... thanks for sharing... i like this sculpture you did of yourself a lot...
-christian
dimension7
Give me existential ennui. Flash.
gallimel
you at your best :)
spidermurph
Perfect colours, perfect mood, cool typography. Shit hot Jimski. Murph
DoomsdayRenderer
Great image and I can fully relate to the message! Intelligent and talented work!