TIM PACKER

   Tim Packer was born in 1961 in Toronto. He studied commercial art in high school and    then Graphic Design at George Brown College. He continued to paint, through the    eighties and nineties while pursuing a successful career as a Detective with the    Toronto Police Service. By the mid nineties his painting had become the driving force    in his life and in January of 2000 he left policing to pursue his art career full time.

   Tim is an elected member and a past President of the Canadian Society of Painters in    Watercolour and a former President of the Oshawa Art Association. He is a Senior    Signature Member of the Canadian Institute of Portrait Artists and sits on the
   Institute' s new members jury. His work has won numerous awards and has appeared    in juried shows in Mexico, the United States and across Canada. Although he originally    received critical acclaim for his watercolours and portraits, in 2004 he made a major    stylistic change focusing on oils of the Ontario landscape. Tim's oil landscapes lie    somewhere between the high realism of his portraits and the abstract quality of his    watercolours; resulting in powerful images of the Canadian landscape reminiscent of    the work of the Group of Seven.