Timothy Poe is an Alabama native residing in Birmingham. After serving in the Coast Guard 1978-82, he established a antique furniture restoration business in Galveston, Tx. and relocated to Birmingham in 1989. Self taught decorative painting skills allowed for a flexible schedule while earning a BA in Art Studio while attending the University of Alabama. He attended the Pilchuck Glass School during the summer of 1995. After earning his BA in Art Studio from UAB in 1996, he developed a multi media working studio in the coal testing lab at the dormant Republic Steel Works (www.thomasproject.org) in the confines of Wade Sand and Gravel, Birmingham, Al. He was the first artist to restore & convert one of the historic buildings at Thomas / Republic Steel facility into a studio space. His aesthetic artistic focus was then and still remains multi media objects made in two and three dimensions with the primary medium glass, cast, blown, clear plate glass and mirror. In 2006 he developed “Antique Mirror Patina Solution”, a unique process for distressing and imprinting the silver / reflective coating on new mirror. This process used by individuals / artists to create special effects using new mirror and led to the development of a new style of decorative and fine art utilizing the reflective surface of new mirror.