Tim Carrington was a writer and editor at the Wall Street Journal and, later, a senior communications officer at the World Bank, concentrating on Africa. He writes occasional articles for The Rappahannock News, published in Washington, Virginia, focusing on challenges facing a rural economy in times of Covid and demographic change.

About the Artist

Tim Carrington lives in Washington D.C. and Washington, Virginia. His paintings focus on the experience of landscape -- observed, internalized, and inhabited. His landscape paintings, executed in oil, usually begin in plein air and are refined and completed in the studio. Figures placed in landscapes are derived from models, photographs or characters in master paintings, including some from panels in the Sistine Chapel. When people -- in paintings or in life --  inhabit a landscape they temporarily alter the surroundings, as they, in turn, internalize certain characteristics of the environment. He is interested in the ways people inhabit and are inhabited by a particular landscape. Meanwhile, unpeopled landscapes generously offer themselves up, at no charge, for observation, appreciation and memory. We might wander in and out of them all our lives.