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Timmy has studied with many fine instructors in various mediums to become an accomplished artist. As digital technology brought major changes to photography, Timmy found herself desiring to paint much more than ever. In 2001 she turned her primary focus to painting with oils on canvas, linen and paper textures. The many years she spent painting on silver gelatin photographs enhanced Timmy's ability to transfer photographs to canvas with amazing accuracy while maintaining a painterly feel in her portraits and landscapes. Her vivid imagination and skill with a brush has allowed her to transform photographs into works of art all her own.

Today her commissioned works include freehand oil portraits, landscapes and pottery. She has been specializing in the production of quaich, traditional Scottish drinking vessels made for whisky, out of clay. Throwing and hand-building vessels in clay are exciting explorations for Timmy, yet she continues to apply oil to canvas with much joy and simple, pure love of the process of creation. All her works are truly inspired from within.

Timmy received the Master Artist degree (1993) and the Photographic Craftsman degree (2000) from the Professional Photographers of America (PPA) because of the excellence of all her creations. She is a Fellow of the Professional Photographers of North Carolina, a Fellow and past president (1993) of the Carolina Artisans Guild and is an active member and past president (2002) of the Charlotte Art League.