Timothy French uses a basic oil painting formula-a drawing, an under painting and then a variety of glazing and scumbling techniques. Formally he strives for a pleasing composition that includes color and objects working together to draw the viewer into a field of it's influence. Like the Surrealists his work is greatly influenced by the unconscious. He sees his work as "personal exorcism, and a way to look up the skirt of the super-ego."