Valerie Timmons is a Louisville-based artist whose genre-spanning work includes landscape, portraiture, still life, minimalism and geometric abstraction. While her paintings may vary in style and mood, their unifying tonal element is an emotional resonance that finds as much beauty in the turbulence of a non-representational tempest of form and color as it does in the clean-lined serenity of a still life.

 

Timmons is an instinctual painter, photographer and digital artist who follows that which catches her eye and trusts her gut during execution. External visual forms serve less as models than as the stimuli that conjure imagery already inhabiting her inner visual memory. Timmons’ preference ratio of line to color may shift from piece to piece, depending on subject and mode. What remains constant, though, are the underlying energetic properties that evoke the surge of life currents embodied by even apparently inanimate forms.

 

Timmons came to painting relatively late, having previously concentrated on her considerable talents in the realms of music and theater. Her love of photography goes back to childhood, and she frequently uses it as a springboard for her paintings and for elements in her digital collages.