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Tectonic 01 02 03 $12200
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 156 inches
121.92 × 396.24 cm - Year
- 2021
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Trilogy 01 $4800
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 40 × 40 inches
101.6 × 101.6 cm - Year
- 2021
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Axis $6400
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 36 inches
121.92 × 91.44 cm - Year
- 2021
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Trilogy 02 $4800
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 40 × 40 inches
101.6 × 101.6 cm - Year
- 2021
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Trilogy 03 $4800
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 40 × 40 inches
101.6 × 101.6 cm - Year
- 2021
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Double Speak 01 02 $9200
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 60 × 96 inches
152.4 × 243.84 cm - Year
- 2020
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Plural $6400
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 36 inches
121.92 × 91.44 cm - Year
- 2021
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Slope 01 02 $8500
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 72 × 48 inches
182.88 × 121.92 cm - Year
- 2021
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Nude $24000
- Medium
- Cast Fibreglass, Paint, Resin
- Size
- 57 × 26 × 25 inches
144.78 × 66.04 × 63.5 cm - Year
- 2021
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Sage AP $8500
- Medium
- Resin and Lacquer
- Size
- 24 × 17 × 16 inches
60.96 × 43.18 × 40.64 cm - Year
- 2019
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Sisters AP $8500
- Medium
- Resin and Lacquer
- Size
- 24 × 17 × 16 inches
60.96 × 43.18 × 40.64 cm - Year
- 2019
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Marker 01 02 $9200
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 120 inches
121.92 × 304.8 cm - Year
- 2020
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Paradox 01 02 $8500
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 72 inches
121.92 × 182.88 cm - Year
- 2021
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Volume 03 04 $8500
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 36 × 96 inches
91.44 × 243.84 cm - Year
- 2020
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Move #2 $8200
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 48 × 72 inches
121.92 × 182.88 cm - Year
- 2019
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Gold Sisters AP $7500
- Medium
- Bronze with 24K Gold Plating
- Size
- 5.25 × 5.5 × 5.5 inches
13.34 × 13.97 × 13.97 cm - Year
- 2019
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Plan B $8200
- Medium
- Acrylic on Canvas
- Size
- 72 × 48 inches
182.88 × 121.92 cm - Year
- 2019
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Grace AP $5200
- Medium
- Bronze
- Size
- 5.5 × 5 × 5 inches
13.97 × 12.7 × 12.7 cm - Year
- 2016
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Eclipse $24000
- Medium
- Cast Fibreglass, Paint, Resin
- Size
- 64 × 36 × 36 inches
162.56 × 91.44 × 91.44 cm - Year
- 2010
News
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Oeno Gallery featured on InCollect 5 November 2020
About Tim Forbes

A young Tim Forbes opened a graphic design studio in Halifax after briefly attending the Nova Scotia College of Art and Design. Soon after relocating to Toronto, a prolific studio was rapidly garnering international awards for the efficacy of creative design and communications. Forbes’s impressive list of clients included some of Canada’s leading corporations and performing arts organizations. He also became a major producer of international marketing campaigns for the film and television industry.
As with most things in a fluid, inventive career, since 2006 Forbes has embraced conceptual art’s underpinnings on his own terms channeling intangible socio-political, theoretical, and material ideas into his practice of sculpture, painting and photography. He is a highly regarded artist with showcases at both the Toronto International Art Fair and New York’s Architectural Design Show. His work is held in private and corporate collections internationally.
Forbes is a post-modern minimalist: his painting explores the nature of material properties and pared-down formal relationships, while at the same time wrestling with political subjects that anchor his work in modern-day dialogues. Complex and deliberately shifting formal elements realized in carbon black on white canvas address contemporary subjects through meaningful repetition and patterning. Paintings are conceived and plotted digitally “to best understand the tension and visual relationships.”
Situated in contemporary culture, Forbes’ forms are imbued with a conceptual functionality: “Especially in the abstract, both the works on canvas and sculpture must have a destination, the arrival of which is addressed in a contemplation of function either within the emotive or within the form.” – Forbes
In sculpture, Forbes first creates a maquette—a small scale model in air-dried clay or hand-formed metal—before working with his production team to custom fabricate large-scale works through state-of-the-art technical processes in resin, fiberglass, bronze or steel. The initial creative process generally involves an aleatory open session of handwork through to completion in a single sitting. The form of the finished maquette will then inspire aesthetic decisions such as scale and patina. Forbes’ sculptural work is process-oriented and often realized in highly alluring, sensual finishes.
In 2018 Forbes was commissioned to create more than 40 original black and white studies as part of a stunning re-design of the Canadian flagship hotel in the prestigious Ritz-Carlton chain. Other important commissions in Toronto include "Leloop,” a stainless-steel sculpture for Daniel Libeskind’s L Tower, "Power” created for a terrace in the Massey Tower and “Cloud," a 3.5m porcelain-white sculpture engineered to float in a pool on the rooftop terrace of The Art Shoppe condo complex.
In 2021, as part of the $200M Queen’s Marque waterfront development in Halifax, a commission for Nova Scotia’s first 5-star hotel, Marriott’s Muir, saw the creation of “Sentinels and Boats” –– a series of photo-based portraits of the rugged Atlantic shoreline.
In recent years, Forbes returned to his roots relocating his studios to the solace of Nova Scotia’s south shore.
View CV
Past Exhibitions
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Outdoor Sculpture Garden Exhibition 2022
16 May 2022 — 31 October 2022 -
Minimalism Transformed
13 November 2021 — 5 December 2021 -
Art Toronto 2021
28 October 2021 — 7 November 2021 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2021
12 May 2021 — 1 November 2021 -
Deep Pop: The Evolution of a Movement
23 April 2021 — 24 May 2021 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2020
1 August 2020 — 1 December 2020 -
Summer Array
17 July 2020 — 6 September 2020 -
Spring Art Finds at Oeno Gallery
17 April 2020 — 30 April 2020 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2019
30 May 2019 — 1 October 2019 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2018
23 May 2018 — 1 October 2018 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2017
8 July 2017 — 26 April 2018 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2016
7 July 2016 — 15 May 2017 -
Outdoor Sculpture Exhibition 2015
19 May 2015 — 1 October 2015 -
Oeno's Sculpture Garden at Huff Estates
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