Tim was born in 1957 and raised in the farming and ranching community of Duncan, Arizona, near the New Mexico state line. In a 1975 high school English class essay he wrote that one of his fondest wishes was to be a member of the Cowboy Artists of America. His wish was granted in 2007 when he was invited to join the prestigious group. After serving on the Board of Directors, he is now the current president.

Tim was voted winner of the Readers’ Choice award for Best Living Western Painter in True West magazine’s 2011 Best of the West poll. He also was honored to have been asked to create the cover of the 75th Anniversary edition of Western Horseman. He has been painting professionally since 1975 and has received numerous awards including the 2003 Prix de West Purchase Award and Express Ranches Great American Cowboy Award in 2004 and 2007 from the National Cowboy & Western Heritage Museum. In 2001 he received the Will Rogers Western Artist Award for Artist of the Year from the Academy of Western Artists and the Olaf Wieghorst Best of Show Award three times from the Mountain Oyster Club.

Tim’s work hangs in the permanent collections of the National Cowboy Museum, the Booth Western Art Museum in Cartersville, Georgia, and in the Old West Museum in Cheyenne, Wyoming.

While most of his time is consumed by painting, Tim regularly rides and works on various ranches throughout the West. He combines the basic ingredients of color, value, perspective and pleasing design with his desire to be a perfectionist in portraying the real working cowboy. This perfectionism earned Tim the Ayudando Siempre Alli Award from the New Mexico Cattle Growers’ Association in 2009 for his contributions to agriculture.

A fourth-generation Arizonan, Tim now resides outside of Bloomfield, New Mexico, where he continues to raise a few cattle and train horses with wife, Suzie, and his daughter Calla.