BIOGRAPHY
Tim Ferraro grew up in Chicago in the seventies. One of five children, his mother and grandfather encouraged his artistic side. Ferraro’s grandfather, Milton Page Matthewson, was a well known Chicago landscape artist. As a young child, Ferraro remembers learning wood carving and oil painting at his grandfather’s side, soaking in artistic techniques and family stories.
While his mother and grandfather encouraged his creative side, Ferraro’s father was convinced that art was neither a very masculine pursuit nor a practical one. So Ferraro combined his interest in Science and Art and completed his undergraduate degree in Medical Illustration at Loyola University. Sensing there was more to learn about art (and a bit tired of drawing anatomical renderings of cadavers), Ferraro simultaneously studied classical art at the Palette Chisel Club and American Academy of Art while completing his undergraduate studies.
After graduation, Ferraro worked as a medical illustrator at Michael Reese Hospital & University of Chicago from 1986 until 1989. Physicians presented Ferraro with assorted body parts and actual snippets of anatomy that he would turn into lush, clear illustrations in order to explain how the human body worked or didn’t work! His illustrations won high praise and were published in prestigious medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Eventually, Ferraro took up a career in healthcare finance to pay the bills. He recalls that even his grandfather, Matthewson, the accomplished artist, had to earn his living as a Bellhop at the Palmer House in Chicago. Ferraro's day job now is as a banking executive. His studio is in his home in a small town east of Seattle where he lives with his wife, Suzanne, and their two dogs Winston and Kokie.
Someday, Ferraro hopes to leave behind the number crunching and pursue his passion for art and music full-time. In the meantime, he continually hones his skills by painting beside and developing a close friendship with renown Northwest Artist Ned Mueller. He also continues to study with other well known artists such as Jack Hines, Jessica Zemesky and Bill Resse.
Ferraro’s subject matter often involves traveling to sacred primitive third world locations such as-- Guatemala, Peru and India. He finds painting the people of other cultures to be a very spiritual adventure. "I am fascinated by the infinite expressions & manifestations of God in our world… in all his brilliant disguises,” says Ferraro. He finds that painting people of indigenous cultures particularly illuminating, “ They are more pure and simple without the trappings of the Western World.” Figurative paintings are often the way Ferraro searches for his own simplicity and spirituality in the world.
Tim Ferraro grew up in Chicago in the seventies. One of five children, his mother and grandfather encouraged his artistic side. Ferraro’s grandfather, Milton Page Matthewson, was a well known Chicago landscape artist. As a young child, Ferraro remembers learning wood carving and oil painting at his grandfather’s side, soaking in artistic techniques and family stories.
While his mother and grandfather encouraged his creative side, Ferraro’s father was convinced that art was neither a very masculine pursuit nor a practical one. So Ferraro combined his interest in Science and Art and completed his undergraduate degree in Medical Illustration at Loyola University. Sensing there was more to learn about art (and a bit tired of drawing anatomical renderings of cadavers), Ferraro simultaneously studied classical art at the Palette Chisel Club and American Academy of Art while completing his undergraduate studies.
After graduation, Ferraro worked as a medical illustrator at Michael Reese Hospital & University of Chicago from 1986 until 1989. Physicians presented Ferraro with assorted body parts and actual snippets of anatomy that he would turn into lush, clear illustrations in order to explain how the human body worked or didn’t work! His illustrations won high praise and were published in prestigious medical journals including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The New England Journal of Medicine.
Eventually, Ferraro took up a career in healthcare finance to pay the bills. He recalls that even his grandfather, Matthewson, the accomplished artist, had to earn his living as a Bellhop at the Palmer House in Chicago. Ferraro's day job now is as a banking executive. His studio is in his home in a small town east of Seattle where he lives with his wife, Suzanne, and their two dogs Winston and Kokie.
Someday, Ferraro hopes to leave behind the number crunching and pursue his passion for art and music full-time. In the meantime, he continually hones his skills by painting beside and developing a close friendship with renown Northwest Artist Ned Mueller. He also continues to study with other well known artists such as Jack Hines, Jessica Zemesky and Bill Resse.
Ferraro’s subject matter often involves traveling to sacred primitive third world locations such as-- Guatemala, Peru and India. He finds painting the people of other cultures to be a very spiritual adventure. "I am fascinated by the infinite expressions & manifestations of God in our world… in all his brilliant disguises,” says Ferraro. He finds that painting people of indigenous cultures particularly illuminating, “ They are more pure and simple without the trappings of the Western World.” Figurative paintings are often the way Ferraro searches for his own simplicity and spirituality in the world.
Gallery Representation
Parklane Gallery
130 Parklane
Kirkland, Wa. 98033
parklanegallery.com
Ferraro visiting with Mayan children in Guatemala during Easter Holy Week.