How Timothy Spall found his own style | Apollo Magazine
The actor Timothy Spall has a knack for playing artists – in the role of Turner himself in Mike Leigh’s Mr Turner (2014) and more recently as L.S. Lowry in Mrs Lowry and Son (2019). Now he has discovered his own painting style – but to do so, he tells Apollo, he had to banish the ghosts of the great painters he has impersonated on screen. Your first solo show, ‘Timothy Spall: Out of the Storm’, opens at Pontone Gallery in Mayfair next month. How did you become a painter in your own right, as it were? Being a new artist but an old bloke, it’s a long journey. It kicked off through m...
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