Timmy Mallett

Timmy Mallett first came to the public's attention as a TV presenter on the Wide Awake Club, a new Saturday morning children's programme on TV-am (1984). He has continued to work in broadcasting, performed in many pantomimes and has recorded a number of novelty singles.

He is known for his striking visual style, colourful glasses, loud shirts, and giant pink foam mallet, known as Mallett's Mallet, as well as his catchphrases - utterly brilliant! and blaaah!

What is less known is that Mallett is an accomplished oil painter and acrylic artist whose work sells in galleries across UK and Europe. His work is distributed and published in limited editions by De Montfort Fine Art and Buckingham Fine Art.

At Warwick University he studied History and History of Art and a paint brush has never been far from his reach. Indeed his passion for painting is as much a part of him as his passion for broadcasting and entertaining.

My dad encouraged me to be a painter and to look at colours and use your eye.

His charitable street art includes a life size gorilla in Bristol and the Remembrance Day piano in Preston.

I always took my paints with me on Wacaday filming trips and the crew would like that, because it meant they would get a break and a cup of tea while I painted a picture. And if they were short of a story, the director would say - Tell you what, paint a picture and tell us what you're doing. That'll fill three minutes.

Timmy Mallett’s award-winning Impressionistic scenes are drawn from his travels around the UK and across the world. Regarded by many as one of our leading Modern Impressionists, he is inspired by sunshine and shadow, the changing seasons and the magic of the moment. His paintings glow with warmth, light and colour. Not surprising when the man known to millions is such a colourful and enthusiastic individual.

In 2002, he painted 50 portraits for the Queen's jubilee including Wendy Craig, Jim Rosenthal, Lorraine Kelly, Ulrika Jonsson and Sir Clive Woodward.

In 2012, Mallett won the Best up and coming artist Fine Art Trade Guild. In the same year he painted a telephone box in Windsor with likenesses of the Queen, Prince Harry and Catherine the Duchess of Cambridge.

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