Angela's Contemporary Art Journey: Blog #7: Paintings by Tim Collom

Tim Collom Gallery: Paintings by Tim Collom

915 20^th Street, Sacramento, CA. 95811

11am—6pm, March 14^th—June 7^th—2015

The discipline that the exhibition represents is oil painting on canvas with the exception of one Giclee. The theme of the exhibited works is landscape. The landscapes are abstract with the exception of two realistic looking landscapes of beaches and water. The other landscapes, which are abstract in style are of mountains and skier’s and of a colorful hillside with fields and trees, there is also a very colorful painting of boats in the water. The colors that Tim Collom uses are very bright and saturated which creates a psychedelic like landscape. He doesn’t use very much blending in his abstract landscapes, instead he layers his colors over each other in patches. Collom’s paintings have a great sense of spacial depth, he uses atmospheric perspective to create the illusion of a landscape that expands into the far off distance. He also uses lines to create a sort of grid with each landscape separating the near from the far. Among Collom’s paintings my personal favorite was titled California it is a landscape which in the foreground has a ski slope full of tiny little skier’s surrounded by large pine trees and mountains. In the mid-ground is farmland which is represented as a colorful patchy grid of land spotted with tiny plants representing agricultural crops growing in the fertile land. In the far off distance of the background is a large body of water and just beyond the water is the city of San Francisco which is represented by a cluster of tiny buildings and the Golden Gate Bridge that stretches from the buildings, across the water.