Biography
Timothy James Standring
Though small in scale, Timothy James Standring’s small works in oil pierce the assumed poetics that the medium aspires to express. Over the past decade, Standring has brought a gimlet-eyed attention to a painterly parity of close observation and delight in his material. Deft material sensitivity and technique, both traditional and radical, register in the recurring themes he paints. Moreover, Standring’s influences stem from in a line of artists extending from Edgar Degas and John Singer Sargent to Joaquìn Sorolla and Andrew and Jamie Wyeth.
Standring’s works are held in numerous private collections across North American and Europe. On three occasions his works have been included in the prestigious 10 x 10 x 10 juried exhibition in Tieton, Washington. He also exhibited in the Coors Western Art Exhibition in 2022, 2023, and again for 2024, and last year was included in the Colorado Governor’s Art Show in Loveland, Colorado. One of his monographic exhibitions at the gallery of the Metropolitan Frame Company in Denver was reviewed by the national critic Ray Rainaldi; another show at Claggett-Rey Gallery in Edwards was cited in Fine Art Connoisseur. He is represented in Denver by Gallery 1261, and in Edwards, Colorado by Claggett-Rey Gallery where his latest exhibition opened on the 14th of December 2024.
A sensitive and voluble teacher, Standring has conducted this watercolor painting workshop at the Lunenburg School of Art, Lunenburg, Nova Scotia in September, at the Art Students League of Denver inπ June 2024; and Rockland, Maine in October of this year. He is a member of the Colorado Watercolor Society. His legacy as an artist and scholar has influenced generations of many around the nation.
