Peonies Painting

Anthony is a member of the National Acrylic Painters Association. As well as being a professional artist and demonstrator he teaches art and runs his own classes throughout the Lancashire and south Manchester areas. The context within which we experience an event will determined how that event is encoded and retained.(Oxford Companion to the Mind. - Richard L Gregory. -1987) The media, with its appropriation of painted images from the past masters, has created a specific genre that provokes an audience into a stereotypical form of interpretation. My work is concerned with the re-introduction of these images as paintings in a contemporary context, enhancing their ambiguity and giving them a true physical presence.