Tim Perkins is a native of central Arizona where he grew up in the shadows of the beautiful red rocks of Sedona. At an early age he entered the Air Force and spent the next twenty years traveling all over the world. As fortune would have it, one of his tours allowed him to visit the Louvre Museum in France where he was awe struck by the artwork of the early masters.  
 
Upon returning to the United States, Tim’s curiosity in his own artistic ability was sparked by early morning painting demonstrations on public television. “It looked so easy that I had to try it for myself,” he says. He quickly became bored with the techniques he was working with and began studying the works of the artists he admired most. “I was immediately drawn to the dramatic works of Leffel and Kreutz. The power of the light in their paintings was very attractive to me and I knew immediately I wanted to paint in that style.”

Tim dove in to studying every book, video and painting he could find and began refining his own talents through “miles of canvas and trial and error.” He received his first taste of formal training when he attended a workshop by Gregg Kreutz at the Scottsdale Artist School in Arizona.

Shortly after the workshop, Tim finally worked up the courage to enter his first show which was a juried event at the Scottsdale Center for the Performing Arts. Much to his surprise, he won the Director’s Choice Award for “Best Body of Work.” Since that initial show, Tim has won awards in every event he has entered and his paintings now hang in the homes of many collectors. Tim believes…”the pursuit of great art is a never-ending, totally frustrating and wonderfully enjoyable adventure.”
 
EXHIBITIONS:

2008 Arizona Art Alliance Show
2007 Wickenburg Fine Art Show
2006 Arizona Art Alliance Wigwam Show
2006 Best and Brightest Show, Scottsdale Artist School   
2006 Arizona Art Alliance Fine Art Show
2006 Fine Art and Wine Celebration
2006 Trilogy Custom Homes Grand Opening
2004 Air Force Artists and Craftsmen Competition

AWARDS:

2008 Best pf Show, First Place, Arizona Art Alliance Show
2007 Best of Show, First Place Oils, Merit Award Oils, Wickenburg Fine Art Show
2006 Merit Scholarship Recipient, Scottsdale Artist School
2006 First Place Oils, Arizona Art Alliance Wigwam Show, Litchfield Park
2006 Second Place Oils, Best and Brightest Show, Scottsdale Artist School   
2006 Director’s Choice Award for ‘Best Body of Work’, Arizona Art Alliance
           Fine Art Show
2006 Featured Artist, Fine Art and Wine Celebration, LukeAFB
2006 Featured Artist, Trilogy Custom Homes, AZ
2004 First Place Oils, Air Force Artists and Craftsmen Competition

STUDIES:
2007 Sherrie McGraw, Scottsdale Artist School
2007 Robert Johnson, Scottsdale Artist School
2006 Gregg Kreutz, Scottsdale Artist School