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Paperback Retrospective Catalogue featuring images of artwork and writings about the late Randall Tiedman (1949-2012)

Randall Tiedman is a highly intuitive self-taught artist. He is also a skilled draftsman who spent nearly four years during his early career copying old master paintings to acquire technical proficiency in oils and various graphic media. He typically works on his paintings over a long period of time, beginning with a familiar image, then subjecting it to a series of destructions and reconstructions, which may be metaphorically compared to a process of death and rebirth. After building up the surface with various media, he mars and scrapes it, leaving mysterious presences where objects or forms have been removed – as if to suggest that these rough, pitted surfaces have been “lived in”. This process, so essential to releasing imagination and subconscious associations, produces deeply felt images of obsessive intensity.

Copyright 2013

WGS Productions, LLC.

ISBN: 978-0-615-88517-9

Writing + Editing: Douglas Max Utter, William G. Scheele, Elisabeth P. Scheele,

Design + Production: William G. Scheele, Catherine Stewart

Art Photography: Matthew Fehrmann, William G. Scheele

Printing: Vedda Printing

Exhibition Curators: William G. Scheele, Douglas Max Utter

Artwork Preparation + Framing: Walken Frame & Art, Don Boncela

Exhibition Presented at HEDGE Gallery + Kokoon Arts Gallery (October 18, 2013-January 4, 2014)

Catalogue + Exhibition produced with support from Dan Bush, Hilary Gent, Carrol & Greg MacLennan, Christie & Jerry Payto, Nancy & Michael DeCesare

Special Thanks to Susan Wiltshire Tiedman & Jan Sikorski