Tim Kapp

I’ll come out and admit it straight away - my paintings usually rely a lot on photo reference. This probably doesn’t come as a surprise as they have that ‘photographic’ feel about them. Sometimes I feel somewhat guilty about this. It’s something that stopped me dead in my tracks in earlier years - ‘you’re no artist because you work from photos’. But I’ve come to the conclusion, quite late in life, that I want to paint, and I’ll do whatever it takes to paint, and if that means

Sometimes it’s difficult not to look back and wonder where I might be now if I had found the courage to believe earlier in my life.

This was my first try at proper outdoor painting, or en plein air as they say in proper painting lingo. Why is it my first ever? Partly...

Hello world. My name is Tim and I've been painting properly in my spare time for about 3 years. I've taken up this creative pursuit quite...