About the artist

Timothy Cumming is a Scottish artist working in mixed media combining traditional and modern materials. He works with oils, acrylics, gouache, watercolours, digital inks and silica sands and precious metals. A painter of both abstract figurative paintings and portraits,

His portrait of actress Patricia Hodges was the first ever digital painting to be shown at the Royal Society of Portrait Painters in 2013. And his portrait show 'Facing the Light' won plaudits and raised over £30,000 for Cure Parkinson's Trust. 

Cumming has developed digital canvas and portraiture techniques that reflect both the sitter and the location. "I work with local and natural materials as much as possible, because they bring a reality to the final work."

Cumming also works in mixed, print and large-format digital media. A late-comer to art, he studied engineering at Glasgow University, and has worked in the creative industries - mainly music, design, photography, web and software - both as artist and technician. The son of Edinburgh painter James Cumming and weaver Betty Cumming, he's based in Wiltshire, UK.