Timothy Spall: 'I was crying, swearing and chucking paint'

The award-winning actor Timothy Spall is known for playing the artists JMW Turner and LS Lowry on the big screen - and now he's become a painter in real life.

"At first, I thought, 'What am I doing, how can I do this? But it's a bit like acting; you get a part and then you just have to go for it and graft and dig away."Spall spent seven days a week for six months mainly painting landscapes and seascapes from his home studio in central London. He was inspired by photographs of his travels around the world in the course of his film career, and when on his boat with his wife Shane.

His mum was also a "good watercolourist," but Spall dithered between a career in acting and being a surrealist, and at one stage even toyed with joining the army. After attending the top acting school Rada, Spall performed for The Royal Shakespeare Company before becoming a UK household name in the 1980s TV drama Auf Wiedersehen Pet.

"Mike Leigh went to art school, and I think he knew I had a feeling for it. And that's what started my route to being in this gallery," he says.For two years Spall learned how to paint like Turner under the guidance of artist and teacher Tim Wright, who provided him with a "foundation course," in classical art. This culminated in 60 paintings, including a reproduction of Turner's masterpiece Snow-Storm - Steamboat Off A Harbour's Mouth.

Pretty much like most artists from last 50 yrs

They’re good paintings but if he was unknown he wouldn’t have got anywhere near a gallery. I know a number of artists who are much better than this and can’t get a show or into an open exhibition. Im tired of people who are famous getting opportunities denied to the rest of us

Harbouring a Grief so very beautiful & poignant ❤️

Fascinating article and artwork about such an interesting man.

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lovely pieces tim, i’d hang them in my place……waveless today is mesmerising

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Auf Wiedersehen pet.😎🇬🇧

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