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Hi, I’m Tony, welcome to my website!

BACKGROUND

I’m an artist living and working in the small town of Saint Laurent de Cerdans in the Pyrénées-Orientales departement in France.

My Work

I’m a figurative artist, producing detailed paintings and illustrations that are sometimes surrealist or fantasy art,  often mysterious; as well as more traditional local landscapes and commissioned portraits of people or their pets. I use either acrylic paint or oil paint, draw in both pen and ink and pencil. I consider all sorts of commissions, for Illustration or fine art; portraiture of people or animals, people’s homes, or their dreams or fantasies described to me.

Click below to view galleries of my work.

In the past I often had a clear image or vision in my head that would be the theme for a painting and this vision would develop and change during the process of painting. In recent years I have found a way to allow chance and the psychology of perception to dictate the theme of the work.

Artists usually start to paint on a pristine white canvas that is pure and perfect as it is. At this stage, the canvas has unlimited potential, it could become anything from a masterpiece, to the soiling of the white perfection. I have recently started to destroy that purity with random abstractions, diluting paint, pushing two canvasses together, putting a wet acrylic painting out in the rain, daubing and splodging paint with no idea or vision of what I’m going to paint. As I stand back I start to see in the splodges and blots a potential face, or trees or animals or whatever, which I then develop with painting.

This is an exciting method for me, as I can start a work with no ideas and be surprised at the images that appear on the canvas. So far the result has always been figurative, often of a ‘Fantasy’ or ‘Surrealist’ nature. Once the theme establishes its self I work on with conscious ideas that stem from this random beginning.

My Illustration usually has a less random start, as a publisher or writer has given me a commission to illustrate a text, which as I read provokes images in my mind. These images are modified and developed during the process of drawing and painting.

About

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I was born in 1948 and have spent  many years living abroad, mainly in France, but also  Spain and Canada and have travelled extensively in India and Sri Lanka. I first hitch-hiked around France with a friend in 1965 aged 17, and repeated it twice after as an Art Student.

Most of my work is ‘visionary’ and reflects my insights into the mysteries of Nature and the Universe. It is also influenced by my travel experiences and my affinity with the natural world. 

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Contact

If you are interested in myself or my work and would like to contact me about either, please use the e-mail link below. I am happy to discuss the possibility of commissions, prices, tuition, exhibitions, or anything else.

Tel: 0033 (0)7 82 61 88 79

E-mail: tonypalmerart@yahoo.co.uk