Tim Cantor was born north of San Francisco in the summer of 1969.  In 1975, Tim Cantor’s father recognized his son's uncommon knowledge with drawing and went into his attic in search of a box of oil paints and brushes that once belonged to Tim's great grandfather.  Tim immediately began painting with the same supplies that his British ancestor had made a way of life with as an artist as he traveled throughout Asia, Europe, and America nearly a century earlier.  Tim’s comprehension with oils was instantly visible, and his obsession began.  His first oil painting came at age five.  By age fifteen, Tim Cantor was given his first gallery exhibition where one of his paintings was acquired to hang in the White House, thereby instigating an immediate demand for his unusual talent.  Throughout the following years, his paintings would travel the world with exclusive exhibitions in Athens, Tokyo, Singapore, Paris, Venice, New York, Beverly Hills and San Francisco.  Today, the diverse enthusiasts and collectors of his art comprise of people from all parts of the world.  One could say that this mysterious artist possesses a rare combination of extraordinary talent and unpredictability to set his name in the artistic history books of tomorrow.  Yet for now, Tim Cantor keeps far from the madding crowd, shrouded in his studio, painting every night from midnight until morning. 

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