“Everything I do is process-driven. I paint big pictures to bring the viewer forward; the closer you get, the more abstract it becomes, until it looks like it’s falling apart.”

Tim Maguire’s paintings and prints are cinematic in scale, celebrated for their luminous colour and technical brilliance. Monumental flowers and ripened fruit emerge from ambiguous backgrounds, creating images that are seductive and intensely beautiful.

Working from digital photographs, Maguire employs colour-separation techniques derived from commercial printing, building his compositions through translucent layers of paint. This distinctive process blurs the boundaries between photography and painting, the mechanical and the handmade, transforming familiar subjects into compelling studies of colour, light and perception.

Internationally acclaimed, Maguire’s work bridges the history of painting with modern visual culture. He has exhibited extensively throughout Australia and Europe, and his work is held in major collections, including the National Gallery of Australia, Canberra, and the Art Gallery of New South Wales. He received the Dobell Prize for Drawing in 1989 and the Moët & Chandon Australian Art Fellowship in 1993.

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