For more than 40 years, now English artist Tony Foster, has worked in the World’s wildernesses, mountains and canyons, rainforests and deserts, the Arctic and the Tropics. Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.
He does not use photography or sketches but makes his paintings on site, often in the most difficult and uncomfortable circumstances. Sometimes a large-scale work (up to seven foot by four foot!) will take more than three weeks on site before it is sufficiently resolved to roll into its aluminium tube to be completed in his studio in Cornwall.
In 2001 the Society awarded Tony the Cherry Kearton Medal and Award for artistic portrayal of the world's wilderness areas.
