“I make the city quiet.”

Tim Saternow is an American painter whose watercolor paintings explore the lost and forgotten areas on the edges of the urban scene. His work encompasses the old High Line train trestle above the gritty industrial streets of New York City, the empty homesteads of Joshua Tree, California, and the dignified and genial old houses of Provincetown, on Cape Cod.

Saternow, trained as a set and lighting designer in theater, and as an art director in film, has always used his theater design sensibilities to make paintings that tell stories of these neighborhoods, and the people who might live there..

He paints large architectural landscape watercolors with a thick use of watercolor paint, playing with the tension between the illusions of depth, carefully drawn linear perspective, and an obvious play on the surface of the paper through watermarks, paint runs, blooms and spatters.    Saternow is particularly sensitive to the emotive power of light, especially the distinct light of fall and winter creating deep shadows while playing across the faces of the old brick townhouses in New York and the weathered clapboard of Cape Cod.

Membership
American Watercolor Society, Signature Member
National Watercolor Society, Signature Member
Allied Artists of America, Elected Member
Philadelphia Water Color Society, Signature Member
New Jersey Water Color Society, Elected Member
North East Watercolor Society, Associate Member
Baltimore Watercolor Society, Signature Artist
Hudson Valley Art Association, Signature Artist
The Art Students League, Life Member
United Scenic Artists, Local 829 (USA 829), NY
Academy of Television Arts & Sciences (The Emmy Awards), Voting Member, LA CA.

Tim Saternow was awarded the 2019 Fellowship with The Clark Hulings Fund, and is currently a Executive Fellow in the Clark Hulings Fund’s Art-Business Accelerator Program.

Tim is represented by the William Scott Gallery, Provincetown, MA,
and The Prince Street Galley, NYC.