Tim Fowler

Tim Fowler is a Seattle artist who has been a wood carver since his youth - he also works in ceramics, concrete, found metal, mosaics, block printing and painting. Fowler was born in Indianapolis, Indiana and has lived in Seattle since 1977. He started working in trades in the 1980s, eventually specializing as a roofer. In 1986 he bought a home in Seattle’s Central District where he began his art career. Around 1984 he was working with a roommate who rebuilt chimneys, and he began contemplating what could be made with bricks and mortar. “Then we went to see a documentary on Antoni Gaudí and there it was,” he writes. “The questions were where, how, and when. I visited Barcelona in 1991 and Watts Towers in ’98 or ’99.” Other inspirations for him were Dick and Jane’s Spot and Bulwinkleland in Oakland, CA. He reroofed the house and patio at the Walker Rock Garden, helped out at their public openings, and did small repairs in the house for Mrs. Walker, although he never worked on the stonework at this site. Inspired, Fowler began to develop his own backyard sculpture park, and ornamenting the house with wood carvings in 1995.

His wood carvings are a testament to his lifelong dedication to making art, tinkering and collecting vintage motorcycles and cars.