Timothy P. Ojile was born and raised in Minneapolis, MN, and was graduated
from the University of Minnesota with an Interdepartmental Degree in Eastern
Art History, the Humanities and Speech-Communications. He began to paint
during the sixties, and during the seventies in New York City, and seriously
pursued painting as a career after he moved to Hawaii in 1981. Since then,
he has been in many solo and group exhibtions, garnered numerous awards, and
has shown throughout Hawaii, as well as on the Mainland, and in Japan and
France. He teaches Intuitive Painting at the Honolulu Academy of Arts.
Artist Statement
As a full-time artist, I have the luxury of painting in different ways to
suit my psychic needs. Sometimes I paint what I call blank places with
simple color schemes, reminiscent of walls in an abandoned house, or
sidewalks cracked and weathered. At other times times I create full-color
compositions, bold, naive and immediate. As well, I have developed over the
years, various kinds of color field compositions filled with repeated,
decorative elements, reflective yet exuberant.
