Timothy Hawkesworth studied for a degree in History and Political science at Trinity College Dublin from 1976 and received an MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts/Tufts University, Boston in 1987. Hawkesworth is an artist unequivocally dedicated to both the process and materiality of painting, working with a dense impasto from which images buried within layers of paint emerge. In his drawings and works on canvas, oil paint is applied wet-on-wet with energetic gestural marks that describe Hawkesworth’s relationship with and connection to his subjects (often landscape or horses) while at the same time recording the durational experience of creating each painting.
Timothy Hawkesworth was presented with Trinity College Art Awards in 1972 and 1974 and awarded a Ballinglen Arts Foundation Fellowship in 2001. He has exhibited widely in America, where he is currently based, and has had solo shows at Peyton Wright Gallery, New Mexico; Littlejohn Contemporary, New York; and Plum Gallery, Massachusetts. In 2006 he showed Recent Paintings and Drawings at the Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin. His work is represented in the collections of the Arkansas Arts Centre, Brooklyn Museum, Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, and in private collections in both Ireland and America.
Exhibitions with Taylor Galleries:2007 Timothy Hawkesworth: New Paintings