About
Tony’s artistic education has been an informal process of methodical as well as meandering exploration. He is primarily a self-taught artist, producing studio and plein air paintings as well as architectural illustrations. A dedicated watercolorist, he nevertheless works in a variety of other media a practice that both challenges and enhances creativity and artistic perspective.
He has drawn and painted for all of his life has always found the act of creation and making marks on paper totally absorbing. As a youngster, he spent a good deal of time drawing and painting the natural world around him. Most drawings and paintings from that time were of landscapes and seascapes, subjects that continue to be his most favorite – and reflected both an interest in the natural and built worlds and a strong attraction to the quality of light.
Tony’s works exhibit a range of representational expression, but common to all is a concern for the quality of light and its effects on form, color and texture. Many of his works are completely focused on the quality of light itself. His paintings are constructed by transforming individual elements into broad shapes of color and value. In the depiction and feeling of light, his paintings contrast the elements of color, value and transparency.
His watercolor technique follows the traditions of many of early masters of the medium, but also incorporates bolder elements from the modern approach. The result is a unique and expressive style which depicts a strong sense of light through the interaction of sharp value and temperature contrasts as well as a creative use of color.
Expressing the rural landscape of New England and Vermont in particular has been the focus of Tony’s work for most of the last 15 years. More recent works are a diverse mixture which includes the rural landscape, view from the garden florals, as well as that of his new-old favorite – the seascape.
Tony is a Signature Member of the New England Watercolor Society, an Artist Member of the North Adams Artists Cooperative Gallery, and a member of the Vermont Watercolor Society and the American Society of Architectural Illustrators.
A native of Winchester, Virginia, Tony currently works from his studio in Bennington, Vermont.
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