Constantly shifting between representation and abstraction, while referencing art, architecture
and design and embracing the decorative, British artist Tim Braden’s work is a celebration of the
act of making things. His expressive and lushly seductive painting explores the in-between spaces
between categories and states, dissolving and reassembling the world in high-key colour and vivid
brushstrokes to re-present reality as something new and newly felt. His painterly works, both
abstract and figurative, often depict or imagine interior spaces such as homes and studios, or
gardens and landscapes, as well as individuals working, making, or looking. Found objects and
images play an important role in the practice. His paintings often evolve from historical
photographs, book and magazine covers or anecdotes involving celebrated twentieth-century
artists and designers such as Wassily Kandinsky, Paul Klee, Sonia Delaunay and painter-turned-
Modernist architect Roberto Burle Marx.
Assembling a body of work produced over the last decade, Tim Braden: Looking and Painting is
the first monograph on the artist in ten years. It draws together the many themes and styles of his
work, and includes many paintings that have never been shown in public previously. The book
includes a response to Braden’s work by Jennifer Higgie, editor of Frieze magazine, and
contributions by Christopher Bedford, director of the Baltimore Museum of Art and Dominic
Molon, curator at the Rhode Island School of Design Museum.