ARTIST For The OCEAN

Biography 

Bob Timmons has developed as an artist naturally from childhood. His love for art as a young boy continued through school and into his adult life. However he did take time away from his art for many years when he went to College but finally was drawn back to it and is now sharing his work to the public. He obtained very high marks in his art classes and won some awards dating back into his elementary years. 

It was around the year 2000 when Bob was finished College and working in his Career when he started back to sketching portraits and designing art for people. His talent and passion for art was not hindered from being distant to it for many years and it just kept escalating over time. 

In 2004, Bob started to Paint for the first time and his medium was mainly Oil on Canvas. He did not receive any schooling for painting and just started to paint and creating beautiful looking landscapes. He had completed 11 Oil Paintings before stopping the use of oil in 2006 and had sold 2 commissioned paintings. 

The summer of 2006 Bob dabbled in Air Brushing and completed a commissioned Mural on a Yoga Studio Wall. This Mural was designed by Bob and referenced a Bamboo Forest. He also completed some designs on sweaters, curtains, and a table he personally customized. 

In 2007, Bob took a risk and moved to Toronto to surround himself in an established art community and to enlighten his life with his passion for art. Bob changed his medium to Acrylic paints and started to learn how to use it. He began painting his own surreal art. He joined the Artist Network of Riverdale to help build a strong foundation to pursue his goal towards showing his art to the public. By December 2007 Bob had painted for his first Member Gallery Showing and displayed 5 paintings.  

The beginning of 2008 Bob has developed a second path within in his painting and this was his awareness painting. These paintings are done to give awareness of what is happening in the world’s oceans in regards to the marine animals vs. the corporate industry and governments. He is very passionate in this area and his paintings do relay this energy.

The year of 2008 was a major turning point in Bob’s life. This was the year he found a new and original path that he believed the art had chosen him to do. He calls these paintings “Horrifically Beautiful”. His first one was completed in January and he continued to paint in the same style describing through his paintbrush the story of the marine animals struggle to survive. These paintings brought him to building a large worldwide network of animal activist and he was recruited by a Toronto Animal Rights Group as the Director of Campaigns. His paintings have brought him into a new and compassionate life amongst caring and unselfish people, which has continued to be directed into his paintings. Bob now is working on a book of these paintings to put the story and the visuals out as a voice for these animals that are enduring an outrageous inhumane action and have either forced a major decline and/or endangerment to the species.

 Now into the year 2009 Bob Has done some amazing accomplishments. Bob started the year with organizing and donating a print of "The Voyage Of My Soul" for a benefit party to raise money for a horse refuge that needed water since their current well dried up. Bob decided this was a great rewarding act and started to donate his print to other functions. He donated a print and partly organized a benefit party for the Sea Shepherd Conservation Society which he co-hosted as well. Then other opportunities came to ask for his assistance and he then donated to a function in Brantford for the "Ontario Child Find" benefit and in Toronto for the "Children's Wish Foundation" to help raise the most money possible. Most recently Bob has donated to 3 SSCS fundraisers, one in Calgary-Alberta and it went into an auction war and raised $255CAD, the second was in London-England and it raised $110GBP, and the final one was in Brisbane-Australia where the print went for $1000AUS.