Scandinavian Sparks Blog

I was round a friend of mines home last week and the topic of art came up. To my surprise I found he had built up quite a assortment of Tim Bulmer sketches and prints. He told me he just adored the humour and wit in each picture, which made him laugh each time he walked along the landing or glanced up from his coffee in the day.

I looked into the work of Tim Bulmer his art and prints, to find out some more about the artist behind the humour. One quote that I found from him appeared to have a insight into his take on things, Tim Bulmer stated “I am fascinated by the incredible diversity of life and am constantly inspired by the fact that it always seems a whisker away from farce”. When it came to his work he simply said that “wry observation of life and an unwillingness to take anything seriously more or less summed up his work”

Tim Bulmers chance arrived when he was employed at a gallery and the proprietors allowed him to display pieces of his work. The initial assortment of his artwork very quickly became very popular and he managed to leave his day job and start sketching and painting all the time. Tim Bulmer was awarded the fine art trade guild’s best selling print artist award in 2001, indicating his fame and general appeal.

I find when you look at Tim Bulmers pieces that “Farce” is frequently the thing that jumps to mind with lots of the situations taking the Michael out of situations political or personal that because of arrogance or ignorance still prevail in our everyday.