England still leads the way with great artists today. The likes of Hockney and Hirst, like them or not they get worldwide attention. Of course the South West has a great tradition for art and there are many talented local artists who are recognised as being at the top of their field.
One of them is Tony Williams SWAc, a prize winning artist who lives and works in rural Devon. He is an Academician, by invitation, of the South West Academy of Fine and Applied Arts, and in 2005 won their major prize. He has many paintings now held in private collections across the UK and Europe and is exhibited widely across the south and south west as well as being featured in The Great British Landscape Exhibition at RHS Rosemoor, in the London Affordable Art Fair. Tony's paintings represented the United Kingdom in the March 2008 edition of the International Artist magazine in a ten page feature and there was a comprehensive and updated feature on oil painting techniques by Tony in The Artist magazine in December 2009. Tony's work can be seen at West Gallery, including the one illustrated below, Stooks in North Devon. A painting that evokes memories of a typical English country scene in the tradition of many English landscape painters. St George would be proud!
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| Stooks in North Devon, Tony Williams |
While we are on the subject of saints, I have to mention, being from Northampton, about the Saints victory over Exeter Chiefs yesterday. The proverbial 'six-pointer' (well, er, eight pointer, not including bonus points, etc... whatever, you know what I mean) which meant the winner would virtually be in the play-offs subject to any shocks in the last game. It potentially sets up a play-off final with old rivals Tigers and hopefully another case of the good English Saints slaying the vicious beasts from up the Welford Road.
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| Ben Foden for Saints against Chiefs yesterday |
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