Tim’s Story
Open your eyes to what a blind man can say to you with his paint brush.
Tim can “Take the dark out of the night time and paint the daytime black.”
Tim wants his paintings to look like they are moving…
He doesn’t want his waterfalls to look like they are standing still.
He doesn’t want his forest fires to look like the suck in their blazed red tongue.
Hold again in your hand the bird that already flew.
Tim doesn’t want his ocean waves to look like they are frozen in motion.
Tim Taubold blind artist was born with bad eyesight. He began wearing glasses at age three, becoming legally blind with vision of 20-200 with his glasses on at age nineteen. Misdiagnosed with macular degeneration, his eye doctor installed a magnifying lens to the left lens of his glasses allowing him continue painting. While legally blind Tim won forty blue ribbons at county fairs using his magnifying glass. At age forty eight diagnosed with retinitus pigmentosa he was completely blind and stopped painting for eleven years. Upon returning to painting and completely blind he has won thirty blue ribbons at county fairs. Tim continues to garner blue ribbons with three best of shows and two best of categories. In 2017 one of his paintings received first place, best in category and best in show at the Cloverdal Citrus Fair. Since there is no category for blind painters Tim competes in the category of professional painters.
Open your eyes to what a blind man can say to you with his paint brush. When Tim paints abstract art he does not use an easel, a palette, a palette knife, a brush, a sponge, apply the paint with his fingers or throw the paint at the canvas. See if you can figure out how he did the painting.
Union – 1st Place Mendocino County Fair 2012
Golden Cross – 2nd Place Mendocino County Fair 2012
Eternal Movement – 3rd Place Mendocino County Fair 2012