Tim Townsley
Artist

Tim Townsley is an artist who works and lives in Los Angeles, Ca.  Townsley received his BA in Art from Cal State L.A. and his Masters of Fine Art from Otis Art Institute.  He has taught mural painting through UCLA Extension and was an instructor at Cal Arts (California Institute of the Arts) teaching figure, color theory, design, and painting.  Townsley has extensive experience in the entertainment industry.  His work covers commissioned portraits, set paintings, matte painting, scenic art and murals.  He has painted murals for theme parks including Disneyland (Anaheim), Sea World (San Diego), Six Flags Magic Mountain (Valencia).  He also has murals in Las Vegas hotels (Mirage, Holiday Inn, and Aladdin) as well as the Queen Mary in Long Beach, Ca. His commissioned murals and paintings are exhibited in most Western Bagel retail stores. His work has been used on the covers of several brochures and he recently designed a logo for guerillalit.com, a literary website. He was commissioned to paint the honorees for the 2003 and 2004 Friends of Jazz at UCLA fundraisers. Townsley donated a painting of Gerald Wilson to the Friends of Jazz at UCLA which was made into posters to promote ‘A Tribute to Gerald Wilson’ in September, 2004 which are still on sale.  The proceeds benefit the Gerald Wilson Scholarship Fund at UCLA. Townsley was also commissioned to paint a portrait of William Ford III, CEO of Ford Motor Company, for the Ce-Cert Program at UC Riverside in 2004.  In the fall of 2004, 12 works were displayed at the Museum of Science and Industry in Los Angeles to benefit the Community Outreach for Prevention and Education (COPE). In 2007, Townsley donated a painting of five jazz honorees to the California Jazz Foundation for a live auction at Catalina's Jazz Club. Townsley has shown in various Los Angeles galleries and venues over the years, most recently 2004-2008 in the James Gray Gallery at Bergamot Station.