Tim grew up in Toronto and attended the Ontario College of Art (now OCAD University). There he studied drawing, painting, illustration, as well as other subjects such as film, creative writing and theatre arts.
He took part in the Florence Off-Campus Studies Program in 1980-1981 and graduated in 1984. He has spent many years as a painter of landscapes, and of animals, wildlife and of other related subjects.
As well as being a painter he is also a cartoonist, caricaturist and illustrator, and has been working in the arts since the age of 19.
