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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...
The screen star, 64, is set to showcase 20 pieces of his artwork in his first solo exhibition this summer, following a career in the TV and film industry which spans over four decades.
Timothy Spall is set to showcase his artwork in first solo exhibition Rianne Addo For Mailonline © Provided by Daily Mail MailOnline logo Actor Timothy Spall is set to showcase 20 pieces of his artwork in his first solo exhibition this summer, following a career in the TV and film industry which spans over four decades. The screen star, 64, stunned fans when he revealed he spent two years learning to paint like artist J.M.W. Turner for a 2014 biopic, but has now taken things a step further by hosting his own show, insisting: 'I've always liked a challenge!' Timothy S...
Last modified on Mon 3 May 2021 16.56 EDT He is one of Britain’s most revered actors and has portrayed JMW Turner and LS Lowry on screen – and now Timothy Spall is having his own paintings hung in a solo show at a London gallery. The gallery owner Domenic Pontone asked Spall to create a show after seeing his work at the Lowry Gallery in Salford, where 14 of Spall’s paintings were displayed in an exhibition to celebrate the release of the 2019 film Mrs Lowry & Son. “Talk about being a bit stunned,” Spall said. “I’ve always liked a challenge but I thought: Jesus, can I do this?”