Timothy F. Phillips frames his vision of his artwork with bright foliage so his skies glimmer and his moons glow in and evening hue. In a careful analysis of Timothy’s paintings, one of the first things we notice is that his subjects are a little slanted or off tilt.

For him, the words of Grandma Moses rings true: “I am a primitive naïve type artist and that works for me.” He sees a primitive artist as an amateur whose works sell. Timothy works with feelings, emotions, and imagination so that spirit prevails and art becomes first and foremost an expression of his own faith. He hopes to create simple beauty with a complex style.

For Grandma Moses, “impressionistic realism lost all its enchantment when contemplating the miracle of imagination.”  Timothy does not conceive his work only as a beautiful object in itself, nor does he present the “realities” of the exterior world in his beautiful abodes and skylines, and riverbanks with colorful little boats afloat. Rather, he expresses the perceptions born of his own meditational self-therapy which he has done since he was just a child of 10 drawing on the sidewalks of his little home town of Coudersport Pennsylvania. He makes us all aware of his view of new dimensions where little houses and little cats become symbols that transmit that “another reality is hidden behind appearances,” and enchanted paths to the beach come to suggest evocative images of a better world for all to enjoy and live in contentment.

The world has come to identify his work with certain themes: his treatment of colors, and hues, and shadows and careful brush-strokes does not always result in a common style. He enjoys at times distancing himself from the schemes and from his habitual techniques to give to us all, for instance, cityscapes, countrysides, farmlands, cottages on the beach with splashing waves and a hammock to relax in are all conceived within vibrancy: he hopes for a vision of a more humane world, enlightened by the forms and ideas in the wondrous invisible world that uphold all things visible.