Tony studied life drawing and graphic design at Sutton Art School, entered the graphics industry and worked as Creative Director for a national company. He is a full member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists and winner of the RSMA Charles Pears Award, the SWAc £1,000 Marine House prize and the RSMA Topbond Marine Award. He has shown at the ROI and was exhibited and sold in Searcy’s at the Gherkin. His marine paintings have shown at the RSMA exhibitions every year since 2015 at The Mall Galleries and are held in many private collections worldwide. He is currently the Honorary Secretary of the RSMA. Tony is currently working on a series of paintings celebrating the lives of the workers in British ship building, and in coal mining. The paintings evoke the atmosphere of these industries during the pre and post war years. Deafness amongst the workers, caused by riveting, often forces the spirit of the painted figures to be bound together in a confiding attitude and the artists now sees these men as a corporate host of ghosts from our industrial past. His work in oil paint always starts with a dark, heavy wash which progressively evolves into a higher tonal key.