The Artwork of Bernadett Timko
Born in Hungary in 1992, Bernadett Timko is a figurative painter who works 
primarily in oil paints on linen or wood panel. Using a muted but diverse color palette, she captures a wide range of subjects and moods.
Timko’s initial art training was at the Secondary School of Fine Art in Nyíregyháza, Hungary. She relocated to London to continue her education at Heatherley’s School of Fine Art where she studied figurative painting, printmaking, etching and sculpture. As part of The New School of Art, Timko was a portrait painting tutor in 2023 at the Dairy Studios located within the Old Malling Farm in Lewes, East Sussex.
Bernadett Timko’s work draws some influence from the emotional atmosphere of classical Hungarian paintings. Despite their display of aesthetic harmony, her works occasionally contain undercurrents of rebellion and challenge to traditional conventions. Timko’s figures and objects are prominently presented, often
highlighted, against a more artistically textured, somber background. She paints both interiors and portraits. However due to Timko’s fascination with people and the presence they emit, portraiture is her main focus.
Timko regularly exhibits her work at the prestigious Central London art institution, Mall Galleries, her representative in England. Among her many awards are two First Prize Winsor & Newton Young Artist Awards from the Royal Institute of Oil Painters (2015 and 2019); two Phyllis Roberts Awards (2015 and 2018); the 2016 Lynn Painter-Stainers Young Artist Award for her painting “Studio 7”; and the 2017 Prince of Wales Portrait Award from the Royal Society of Portrait Painters.
Notes: An extensive 2023 studio interview with Bernadett Timko for Britain’s online magazine “Artists & Illustrators” can be found at: https://www.artistsandillustrators.co.uk/featured-artist/in-the-studio-with-bernadett-timko/
Top Insert Image: Dan Higginson, “Bernadett Timko”, Idle Hands Society Interview, May 2022
Bottom Insert Image: Bernadett Timko, “Studio 7”, 2016, Oil on Linen, 152 x 150 cm, Winner of the 2016 Lynn Painter-Stainers Prize
Nice discovery. I’d love to have her do a portrait.