Bio

Timna Woollard was born in 1960’s swinging London to film designer parents who took her on the road as a child, to Italy, Israel and Ireland amongst other places, as she recalls “ my playground was the magical fantasy worlds of the film sets”.

Timna was educated at the bohemian boarding school, Frensham Heights, Farnham, where she had been awarded the Art Scholarship at the age of 11 years.

Here she became mesmerised by the Renaissance and Florence, which was to influence her work for years to come.

From school she went on to study Fine Art at St Martins College and Maidstone College of Art in England.

Timna’s final graduate work was a remarkable piece of intensively personal work, which culminated in mixed media film called The Little Mermaid. This gained her many plaudits and was shown at the Smithsonian Institute, Washington between 1984 –1987 . In 1985 it was shown at The M.C.A.D Gallery. Minneapolis.

In an interview at the time Timna recalls her influences, “ …I have a great love of the theatrical, many influences are coloured by my childhood in film and my love of the Renaissance. Artists : De Chirico, Piero Della Francesca, Uccello, the early gothic and byzantine paintings, Leon Bakst and the early Russian Ballet, the mime artist, Lindsay Kemp’s production of Salome, the films of Jean Cocteau & Maya Deren’s ‘Meshes of the Afternoon’, Sergei Parajanov’s ’The Colour Of Pomegranates’ Bunuel’s ’The Obscure Object Of Desire’ and Fellini’s ‘Satyricon’

Recurring Themes

Water

Mermaids

The femme fatale 

Body adornment & costume

Colour, composition & the symbolism of colour

Trompe l'oeil trickery & playing with dimensional space