Tim Santimore completed his BFA degree in Studio Arts from Johnson State College in the winter of 2016. He is a Photographer and Mixed Media Artist, coming to the latter after ten years working variously as a Freelance Photojournalist, Stock Photographer, Gallery Assistant, Farmhand, Security Guard at the Phillips Collection in Washington DC, and Construction Laborer. He received a 2016 fellowship grant from the Vermont Studio Center, and has shown his work at galleries and venues throughout the state. His work is heavily influenced by Eastern philosophical ideas (especially those of Zen Buddhism) and the energetic aesthetics of gestural abstraction.