Bob Timberlake is an internationally acclaimed realist painter and designer who makes his home in Lexington, North Carolina. After graduating with a B.S. degree in Industrial Relations in 1959 from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, he worked in five family businesses in a hands-on, executive capacity. He married his childhood sweetheart in 1957 and has three children and seven grandchildren.

Timberlake began painting as a young child but began his professional career in 1970. Although he received no formal art education or training, his work is best known for its intricate attention to color and detail. His depiction of the simple life in his native North Carolina has endeared his work to millions of admirers around the world for over 40 years.

Timberlake’s art career has been marked by consistent and resounding success. The first one-man exhibition of his work was sold out immediately, a first for the Gallery of Contemporary Art (now SECCA). Bob was also the first and only Southerner in modern history to have a one-man exhibit at the Corcoran Gallery in Washington, D.C.

Not content to confine his talents to a single medium, Bob Timberlake has designed four stamps for the US Postal Service – a Seasons Greeting Christmas Stamp and both of the commemorative statehood stamps for North and South Carolina.

In 1990 Bob Timberlake, Inc., was launched with The World of Bob Timberlake® collection of furniture. This collection revolutionized and brought excitement back into the industry. The collection was named the most significant introduction of a line of furniture in the last 40 years and was touted as “The Antiques of the future”. He has been presented with numerous awards in the home furnishing industry and was inducted into the Furniture Hall of Fame.

In 1997, Timberlake introduced a collection of 24 home plans and licensed structural and fashion building components in order to create complete Bob Timberlake homes, built and
furnished with Bob Timberlake products.

Bob has been and is involved with many art and environmental issues and boards. He has raised funds for so many worthwhile projects from County & Volunteer Fire Departments to our NC Wildlife Habitat Foundation, Keep America & NC Beautiful and Green, Lions Clubs, Easter Seals, North Carolina Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, Boy Scouts of America, Duke Cancer Research and Children’s Hospitals, Save the Hatteras Lighthouse, Salvation Army, to name a few.

He has also been the recipient of many prestigious awards for his charitable accomplishments and been honored by Presidents Carter and Reagan and King Charles of England.

Bob Timberlake teamed with Eddie Bridges, lifelong outdoorsman and founder of the North Carolina Wildlife Habitat Foundation, partner to present a spectacular collection of three wildlife reproductions titled the Sportsman’s Series. The proceeds of which supported NCWHF’s largest conservation project across the state of North Carolina.
Bob Timberlake continues doing what he most enjoys in life: spending time with family, painting at his Studio, and hunting and fly fishing with dear friends. His involvement with fund raisers and charities.