Timothy Sawyer Shepard.

Shepard’s works are sly in the way they evoke the truth of nature and yet that truth is created whole cloth from a media of mechanical reproduction.  In this way they evoke the American tradition of the natural miniaturist Joseph Cornell and Nell Jenney while referencing the recent European tradition of painterly hyperreality.

Work on a Landscape Collage begins within a particular landscape or place, and the overlaying of impressions and perceptions in the artist's mind.  Shepard uses a camera to capture and record this experience, photographing the numerous individual elements which unselfconsciously catch his eye, but which nevertheless combine to form a memory of the place. Back in the studio, the artist reassembles these elements, layer upon layer.  Hundreds of image fragments form the final picture, with a fluidity and interconnectedness that express both the actual and imagined - an omnijectivity of the plural viewpoint.  This is how the mind conceives the landscape - both in the present of seeing it, and creatively as a memory.  Memory is a collage. 

Shepard has created a number of album covers, including Paul Weller 22 Dreams (2008), and Kevin Ayers, The Unfairground (2007), which Shepard also co-produced. He has also created a number of music videos usually working with super8 film  including for Kevin Ayers, The Go-Betweens, Terry Edwards and Bandante (George Vjestica - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds).
In 2003 was invited to be Artist in Residence at the Centre de Sculpture in Montolieu in the Montagne Noir, France. This residency lead to a commission from  the French Ministry of Culture in a pilot scheme of inviting artists to interact with historic monuments and buildings. 

Between 2008 and 2015 had a studio in the small hamlet of La Galaube, 10km north of Montolieu up in the Montagne Noir. It was here amidst the extraordinary primordial beauty of a mountain wilderness landscape that he made work in a roof top studio alongside innumerable spontaneous landscape interventions created during hikes in the mountain.