I was round a colleague of mines house last week and the topic of art came up. I was quite surprised when I found he had worked up quite a collection of Tim Bulmer sketches and prints. He said that he just loved the humour and wit in each picture, which made him laugh every time he mooched along the hall or glanced up from his food in the morning.

I looked into the work of Tim Bulmer his art and prints, to pull out some more about the man behind the humour. A quote that I found from him appeared to have a insight into his outlook on things, Tim Bulmer stated “I am fascinated by the incredible diversity of life and am constantly inspired by the fact that it always seems a whisker away from farce”. When it came to his work he merely said that “wry observation of life and an unwillingness to take anything seriously more or less summed up his work”

Tim Bulmers chance came when he was employed at a gallery and the owners allowed him to display pieces of his work. The small collection of his artwork very soon became very popular and he managed to leave his day job and start drawing and painting all the time. Tim Bulmer was awarded the fine art trade guild’s best selling print artist award in 2001, indicating his fame and overall appeal.

I feel that when you come across Tim Bulmers pieces that “Farce” is constantly the word that springs to mind with lots of the environments taking the Michael out of situations political or personal that due to arrogance or ignorance still prevail in our everyday.