Timothy Horn, a friend of mine from high school, was born and raised in Yellow Springs and graduated from the Cooper Union School of Art in New York City, with a focus in graphic design. After finishing school, he worked at several design firms in New York before moving to San Francisco, where he continued to work as a designer. Tim’s original painting of the corner Drugstore on Glen Street and the Presbyterian Church on Xenia Avenue downtown Yellow Springs, hangs in the Three Ten parlor, opposite a picture of Dad working behind the prescription counter when the corner drugstore was called Erbaugh & Johnson.
Horn took his first painting class on a whim, followed by another, and within a year he knew he had found his calling. He began painting more and more, and doing less and less graphic design until the fall of 2006 when he closed his design business entirely. He now paints full-time and lives in the small town of Fairfax, CA where he is drawn to the everyday scenes of the rural areas in the Bay Area — the old buildings, cars, trucks and ranch life that continue on, or sometimes simply the play of light and shadow. Horn wants to create paintings that tell his story, that express his observations, from his point of view.