In 2017, artist Aimee Timpson saw an exhibition that would change her life. Wandering through rooms of paintings by the great David Hockney at the National Gallery of Victoria, Timpson found herself captivated not by the artist’s canvases but rather by the digital works the artist has produced in his mature practice. “I was inspired,” says Timpson, “and rushed out and bought my iPad to draw on.”
Since then, she has been pouring herself into her screen, using the digital realm to communicate her innermost thoughts to her audience. It is this intimacy that excites the artist most about the medium. “In a world where anything can be created with AI, sometimes something is missing: the love and passion we hold.”
Using a forceful palette informed by her expertise in Adobe Fresco and an infinite supply of textures and patterns at her fingertips, Timpson uses her medium to convey a complex inner world. Text intersects with image in collages of desire and despair, the artist’s audience drawn closer by a profusion of intricate visual details. Flowers are an ongoing motif within the artist’s oeuvre, their potent symbolism adding to the narratives that propel her work.
The digital medium allows Timpson to achieve an emotional immediacy in her pieces, the endless possibilities it provides matching the boundless nature of the human experience.
Above: Aimee Timpson, Dream So Real, 2023. Digital print, 50.8 x 50.8cm. Courtesy: the artist.
