have chosen. “It can be very solitary being a painter and receiving external challenge and criticism is important,” he said. Antony now splits his working
week between painting and working part-time for the faculty of Media at Gloucestershire University. Since starting to exhibit in 2009, with a small show at the Brockweir Village Shop, he’s had work touring Wales as part of the group show Lines and Strata 2, solo exhibitions at the Old Station and Taurus Crafts in Lydney and work at The Gallery Cinderford, the Applestore Gallery, Hereford and Art @ Oriel Jones in Monmouth. He joined MiM in 2010 and
says: “It’s allowed me to network with other creative practitioners and to think about collaboration in relation to exhibitions; it’s opened my work up to new markets, made galleries more aware of my work and generally increased awareness of what I do.” Anthony works mainly with
acrylic paints on canvas: “I love the bold colours that acrylic paint provides and I also like the fact that it dries so quickly as I often paint in
many layers.” He spends a lot of time
wandering around the local landscape with a small sketch-book and a camera, usually trying to capture the composition he wants with a quick drawing and then taking lots of photographs to inform the work.
“A lot of my work is based on
very transitory natural effects; I’ve done a lot of paintings of mayflower, which only lasts a week at best, so whenever I saw an example, I snapped loads of pictures. I only ever use photographs as a starting point, however, as I feel it is important not to rely too much on them; the colour is never precisely true and over-reliance on them can make your work a bit ‘stiff’. “Most of my paintings are
developed in short series and I seldom do just one picture of a subject. I love to work my way into an image by exploring it in different ways, from different angles and in different sizes.” For more details about Gillian and
Anthony’s work visit:
www.madeinmonmouthshire.com.
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