Bio: Tim Rand (b 1987) is a painter and printmaker based in Clinton, NY. Having rekindled an interest in printmaking while working at Hamilton College, he invested in his own printmaking studio, hoping to meet the challenges of a new medium. 

Embracing techniques that have been around for centuries and holding those techniques in high regard, his work, much like the subjects, are a rejection of modern technology and a study of a simple life spent. 

Artist Statement: A childhood spent learning the ways of the wood is a childhood best spent. My grandfather taught me, maybe not in words but actions, that the outdoors and particularly the woods are a sanctuary, where thoughts can fully form and memories can be closer in distance than time permits. 

The subject of all of these pieces winds its way back to those heady days of summer I spent with Old Man Rand. He was a unique character, wrought from a different cloth. He raised bees in the backyard and drank homemade tea with their sweet honey. His ancient hands were a snarl, formed from a long lifetime of felling trees and chopped wood. 

We planted chestnuts along lonesome country roads and deep in groves of his well trodden woodlot in hopes of a renaissance of that noble American tree. 

His greatest lesson was just that – we are stewards of the land and earth. We come, we go and nature can cure all that ails our souls.

Website: www.timrandart.com

Social Media: @timrandart, @trand.art.studio.gallery