Tim’s one-man show in Bond Street

Tim Pomeroy, long known on Arran as a brilliant sculptor, has been offered a one-man show in the centre of London’s West End, at the Fine Art Society in New Bond Street. It will run from November 11th to 27th. The handsome invitation card shows two of Tim’s works. On the facing side is an astonishingly intricate twin spiral in white stone, where the radiating lines are expressed through the incised spaces between them. Mathematically, it is so complex as to baffle the mind, and yet it has a quiet, self-contained beauty. The reverse side shows a heavy, beautifully smooth poppy seed in Belgian blue marble, as sleek and dark as a gun-shell, full, one feels, of potential to destroy, or, simply as a seed head, to create others of its kind. It’s a double potential that will runs strongly through all the work.

Tim has for many years been finding themes in both natural and manufactured objects, but his new work seems to sing with confidence and perception. Each thing created evokes a multitude of responses. The sleek, torpedo-like shape of a dark slate form, narrow as a fast-moving fish, seems essentially aquatic, yet it lives in its surrounding air as a moment of stillness that goes on suggesting movement. There is, too, a sense of widely sensed religion in Tim’s work. Some pieces have the mystery of a reliquary, with a treasured centre seen through and under layers of protection. Significance blooms again and again, each time unexpectedly and in its own terms. Tim, who is also a poet and musician, has an Eastern sense of the quiet moment that can be found at the centre of activity, and his forms have a completeness in themselves that works powerfully on the viewer.

Many of the larger pieces are already in the London gallery, in preparation for the show, but next week Tim will be setting out on the long drive south with a truck-load of carefully packed recent work, including the ones shown in our photos. He deserves every success, for his creative journey has been (and continues to be) a demanding and arduous one. Nothing less is possible if the work is to find its own silent life through the powerful language of its material and form. It’s an ongoing search with no end, and we, the viewers, are given an astonishing gift through seeing these quiet, immensely beautiful sculptures.