Meet Tim Bachman | Artist & Designer

We had the good fortune of connecting with Tim Bachman and we’ve shared our conversation below.

Hi Tim, what role has risk played in your life or career?
As an artist trying to start a business or just selling work at a sustainable level risk is a daily factor that you must come to terms with. For my specific business model I continue to reinvest, so any profit made is usually put back into the business for more product, power tools, marketing, etc. I think risk is important for any entrepreneur to learn from and respect, without it you wont gain any success or business insight.

For me growing up with very little financial resources I learned to adapt and be resourceful. Gaining a higher tolerance for financial risk regularly and still to this day. Risk is maxing out credit cards and traveling 2,000 miles away to another state for an art show, then sleeping in parking lots while making just enough gas money to get home. Risk is doing that again and again until one of those art shows goes very well and can float you through to the next.

Risk plays a significant role in my career and continues to do so year after year. Without it I wouldn’t be moving forward, instead stagnant.

Alright, so let’s move onto what keeps you busy professionally?
Most of my time and creativity is focused on painting as of recently, however I am utilizing the skills I learned in school as an industrial designer and applying them in the world of furniture design. With painting I am driven by surrealism similar to the work of Salvador Dali. I enjoy creating interesting, surrealistic, and vividly striking landscape paintings. Often times telling a political story and other times thought provoking and whimsical while open for interpretation. I think art should be fun and captivating so I try to be unusually different while relevant in the story I am conveying.

In the world of Furniture design I try to remain simplistic and minimal while still intriguing. Sustainability always holds a strong philosophy in all my designs along with high quality materials. I am heavily inspired by midcentury, Scandinavian, minimal and organic design within my woodworking while always maintaining a unique sculptural type of element in each design.

From the first time I set up my work at taste of Colorado I was bit by that entrepreneurial bug and nothing else mattered. I started to take it seriously and while finishing up school I wanted to make a plan to continue down this path while I still had the chance to chase my dreams. I learned harsh and challenging lessons along the way including; don’t listen to nay sayers, always trust your gut and continue to push forward. Being negative in your bank account is gonna happen more than once. The only difference between someone that succeeds and someone that doesn’t is the person that gives up. It’s not gonna be easy but either you are working on your dream, or you are working on someone else’s.

If you had a friend visiting you, what are some of the local spots you’d want to take them around to?
I would start with some city life with one of my favorite ramen spots called Uncle. Then we would check out some other fun place’s around the city for the night. Maybe Ophlieas’s for some good snacks and drinks and to see some old friends as I used to work there while finishing up school. Certainly try to do a Red Rocks concert and hike respectively. Take a fun trip into the mountains and go camping for a few days. Maybe a water rafting trip and perhaps see the black canyon of Gunnison and end the day at a hot spring. Then top off the trip at Bishops castle down south before heading back home.

Who else deserves some credit and recognition?
For my specific endeavor and journey as artist it truly takes a village of help. I have had so much support from friends and family along the way. Without the initial encouragement from family and friends as an artist I would have never kept creating. One of my long time friends and roommate Jordan White gave me a-lot of motivation to try to start selling my work and thats where it really all began. With support of my Wife, friends, family, co workers and even business podcast’s, I continue to work hard at this non traditional endeavor daily with the help of everyone.

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