Timothy Betjeman was born in New York City in 1982; he has lived and worked in London since 2006. He studied mathematics and philosophy at McGIll University before taking a BA in visual arts at the University of Chicago in 2005. He moved to London in 2006 on a full bursary to complete the Drawing Year at The Prince's Drawing School, and has exhibited widely in London and the Europe since. He has undertaken artist's residencies at Kensington Palace and recently in Uttar Pradesh, India at the International Institute of Fine Arts. His plein air oil paintings of East London depict non-classical scenes embracing movement, decay and marginalia, often taking peripheral or distracting elements of the urban environment as their central subject. His work is largely drawing based, aiming at a synthesis between mark-making and painting which bears the influence of British landscape artists such as John Piper, Jack Yeats, Leon Kossoff and Frank Auerbach. In recent years he has been experimenting with mixed media applications on glass, combining precious and crass materials with painting methods to produce material images which are fused by the glass itself rather than shielded by it.
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