Timothy Norman, OPA

Winner of Award of Excellence Oil Painters of America National 2005

Born in Dallas, Timothy Norman has been winning awards and recognition for outstanding achievement in the arts for more than a decade.

In 1994, Tim graduated Magna cum Laude from the University of Dallas with a BA Painting degree, achieved membership in Phi Beta Kappa, and almost immediately began work on public and private commissions.

Tim has painted more than 130 commissioned portraits winning a Special Mention award from the Portrait Society of America in 2002 and their Award of Merit in 2004. Other recent recognition has included the Chairman's Choice Award at the second Annual Salon of the Art Renewal Center (ARC), an organization dedicated to classical realism in art. The 2005 competition was considered to have been the finest show of art since the great Paris salons of pre-World War I. Tim's painting A Young Boy and Bacchus, a Florentine Piazza, was selected for a Chairman's Choice Award from more than 1500 entries from 30 countries.