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tim

welcome to my page of misery

About Me


I likes doodling and making things..........................

(pictures of new artwork regularly posted on the blog section above.)
All images © Tim Floyd

'Rotter' (head only)

. . . 'Conjoined' (Acrylic on wallpaper -2002)

Venus Flytrap glass action. 10/03/07. photo: Andy Council

photo: Deborah Weinreb

'Nuts' (an automaton)

. . . another windle drawling

My Interests


..... -i likes getting dolled up loathsome like the undead and fidgeting in the mud.

... a bit of purulent posturing

I'd like to meet:


Dogs ov Salford (circa 1996)

When I lived in Salford I used to enjoy following stray dogs around to see what they got up to. I'd sometimes carry a disposable camera with me to photograph dogs that I met on the street.

An excitable beast photographed outside the greasy cafe on Lissadel street.

An old-timer in Broughton.

A composed character taking a stroll down a side street near Salford precinct.

Two photographs of this cautious fellow taken on separate occasions: Scampering along by the greasy cafe....

...and eyeing me warily at Salford precinct.

This privacy advocate pictured near Salford precinct took offence to being photographed and pursued me barking.

Another barker defending a street-corner (Lissadel street again I think) from intrusive photographers.

Dogs loitering outside of their homes: Waiting by a front door in Broughton....

...and wriggling around in a front yard.

This dog lived on Trafalgar Road. It didn't wander far, prefering to pace up and down its own street snooping around. It was a bit of a prat.

Music:


the vinyl.

and Wedosm

Movies:


I enjoy films about alcohol fueled squalor:
BARFLY
OUTBACK
WITHNAIL & I
LEAVING LAS VEGAS

I enjoy 70's and 80's zombie films:
THE VIDEO DEAD
RETURN OF THE LIVING DEAD
the Romeo stuff,
especially DAWN OF THE DEAD

and I like these ones too:
2001
FIGHT CLUB
THE SHINING
INLAND EMPIRE
MULHOLLAND DRIVE
GOODFELLAS
TAXI DRIVER
THE BIG LEBOWSKI
THE FLY
THE THING
NUTS IN MAY
WAKING LIFE
SPINAL TAP
TOUCHING THE VOID
NAPOLEON DYNAMITE
THE GOOD THE BAD AND THE UGLY
APOCALYPTO
JACOBS LADDER
Ken Loach's LAND AND FREEDOM.

Television:


SIMPSONS, THE TRAPDOOR, DAY TODAY, TWIN PEAKS, SPACED, BRASSEYE, THE OFFICE

1980's PUBLIC INFORMATION FILMS: the one that really struck me at the time was a series of farmyard accidents suffered by unsupervised children -boy drowning in a slurry pit etc. I also liked the 'Natural Born Smoker' but I think that may have been an advert.

Books:


'STREET DOGS' (a collection of dog sketches by english artist Harold Riley) 'FOREST CAMERA -a portrait of Ashdown' by Peter Kirby SIDDHARTHA by Hermann Hesse, PAPILLON by Henri Charriere, CANNERY ROW/SWEET THURSDAY by John Steinbeck, HARD TIMES by Charles Dickens, THE GOD OF SMALL THINGS by Arundhati Roy, PLAGUE DOGS/WATERSHIP DOWN by Richard Adams, THIS TIMELESS MOMENT by Laura Archera Huxley, THE S.A.S SURVIVAL HANDBOOK by John Wiseman, WATER LIGHT TIME by David Doubilet,
I also like: George Orwell, Richard Brautigan, Daniel Clowes, Charles Bukowski,the Banksy stuff..

Heroes:

Gotama, Goenka, Gyatso, Chomsky.

My Blog

Recent Exhibitions.

Hello. I've had the good fortune to have recently exhibited work in a couple of  great venues: Down among the cells of the 'Old Bridewell Police Station' as part of the '12 Days of Xmas' exh...
Posted by tim on Tue, 08 Jan 2008 02:16:00 PST

Barton Hill mural.

During the Inbristol open studio weekend local kids helped myself and other artists based at the studios to stencil leaf shapes onto the carpark wall. Here's some photos: &n...
Posted by tim on Tue, 27 Nov 2007 03:47:00 PST

my Descendent

Hello there. I hurriedly finnished this zombie for the private view of our open studio's event last weekend. It still needs a bit of work doing on the rear so you can walk right around...
Posted by tim on Sun, 23 Sep 2007 05:07:00 PST

BurgerThing

BurgerThing was inspired by the mechanized meat industry and by Rob Bottin's special effects in John Carpenter's 'The Thing'-(This is a link to some sound clips from the film. I'd recommend givin...
Posted by tim on Wed, 22 Aug 2007 02:49:00 PST

St. Werburghs art trail pics.

St. Werburghs and Easton art trails took place last weekend and as is typical with this 'summer', the rain came doon -sometimes in torrents! I've put photos below of some artwork I hung in the ga...
Posted by tim on Tue, 03 Jul 2007 07:59:00 PST

Childrens fruit 'n veg monsters.

Last Tuesday I did a workshop with some kids at Lawrence Weston Community Farm making monsters out of fruit and vegetables. Here are some of their creations:  (Cheers to Liz.)&nbs...
Posted by tim on Sun, 03 Jun 2007 12:44:00 PST

A crab with a marker pen...

...scribbling over one of the Southville Centre's windows during the Southbank Arts Trail: A pic of this crustaceous despoiler next to Andy's drawing of an octopus constructed from sea...
Posted by tim on Sun, 13 May 2007 01:05:00 PST

Decadence in Dorset

Portrait of a chap I saw one morning on 'ladies day' at a festival in Dorset: (biro, watercolour and fabric on watercolour paper.)...
Posted by tim on Sat, 05 May 2007 03:16:00 PST

z-Om-bies...

On friday afternoon I took a few cans of Belton down to the Temporary Autonymous Artspace and painted a walking cadaver (with ascending soul) onto an 8ft wooden pannel. -Thanks to Bristol In...
Posted by tim on Sun, 22 Apr 2007 03:54:00 PST

'Rotter' at the Burlesque Gorefest exhibition. -pics.

(Thanks to Natalie, Betty and Poppy.)...
Posted by tim on Tue, 17 Apr 2007 09:13:00 PST