Drawing inspiration from artists such as Max Beckmann and Bonnard, as well as Lorenzetti and Brueghel, he explored his personal relationship, both real and mythological, with the city where he lived and worked.
Timothy Hyman was Artist in Residence at Lincoln Cathedral, Sandown Racecourse and, most recently, at Maggie's Cancer Caring Centres (exhibited at the Royal Academy in 2015).
Kitaj and the Indian painter Bhupen Khakhar[5] Since 1990, he has been a regular contributor to the Times Literary Supplement and has written on a variety of subjects including: Ernst Ludwig Kirchner[6] Henry Darger[7] and German Romanticism.
In 2003 his widely admired monograph Sienese Painting (Thames & Hudson) centred on Ambrogio Lorenzetti and other artists of the fourteenth and fifteenth century, and was described in the TLS by David Ekserdjian as "an unimprovable union of exceptionally acute looking, magical prose, and authoritative scholarship".
"[12] According to Linda Nochlin it "constructs a new and convincing scenario for the history of twentieth century painting ... wonderfully concrete in detail and wide-ranging in scope.
[13] In 2001, along with the cultural historian Patrick Wright, Hyman was lead curator for the acclaimed Stanley Spencer retrospective at Tate Britain.