About.
Tim Forbes is a multi-disciplinary Canadian artist based in Nova Scotia. His international studio practice in painting investigates minimalist symbolism, in sculpture expresses perceptions of emotive movement, while in photo-imagery explores the power of nature with perspectives of human endeavour and cultural memory.
Born in Halifax, NS, among other adventures he briefly attended NSCAD prior to creating his first graphics design studio. Soon after relocating to Toronto he garnered international acclaim as an award-winning creative source in the production of cross-platform communications for the performing arts, the film & television industry and leading global corporations.
“I remembered a sculpture done when I was eight…and had been waiting to get back to it.”
Stretching beyond the confines of an urban design studio, in 2006 Forbes created an annex studio at a 20’s rural Ontario schoolhouse, initiating sculpture as a personal dimension. Soon after, a first edition suite of bronze works was released to collectors. In 2009, global art specialists AXA ART showcased Forbes’ works at the Toronto International Art Fair. In 2011, Forbes was invited to be featured at the prestigious Architectural Digest Home Design Show in NYC.
Today, exhibition and commissioned sculpture are produced in fiberglass, resin, bronze, wood and stainless steel.
In photo-base monographs Forbes proposes perspectives ranging in theme from cultural memory to the fractal repurposing of built and organic form.
Gestural works on paper prompted the opening of a dedicated painting studio in Toronto in 2018. Recent large-scale works on canvas, reflecting contemporary minimalism were formally released to collectors at the 2019 Toronto International Art Fair followed in 2020 by an American Premiere exhibition in Boston.
After career years based in Toronto, in 2019 Forbes shifted his creative epicentre to the south shore of his native Nova Scotia.
