Tim Truelan grew up in the West Country of England and attended Exeter College of Art, followed by a post-diploma year at Brighton, Sussex. In his early twenties, he set out for adventure across America, supported by a variety of interesting jobs, including working with a ski company, a French-Canadian carnival, building sail boats on the West Coast and finally working aboard the Queen Mary for the Californian Museum of the Sea Foundation, Long Beach, Southern California. Tim has ridden horses across England, Portugal and Spain. In the Americas he has ridden Western saddle in: Mexico, California and Montana.