'Downtown N.Y.C.' - Tony Wells

Tony was born in Blackpool. He went to Liverpool College of Art during its golden years, from 1967-71. After completing full time studies he went on to teach printmaking at Gloucestershire College of Art & Design then became head of an Art and Design Foundation course on Merseyside, at the same time working as a successful illustrator with major publishers specialising in children's books. In 1996, he left teaching to concentrate on figurative painting and explores his interest in creating images of visual complexity with abstract and textural qualities. Read more...

1-2-3, Haydock Park
32x50 inches

Close Finish
£1950
32x42 inches

Corner of Hudson
& Vestry
£1500
39x33 inches

East Village NYC
£1200
26x22 inches

Robert Morley
£950
28x21 inches

Shopping with Maud
£1400
26x33 inches

Hoboken N. Jersey
£900
31x23 inches

Heading Downtown
£1500
42x32 inches

Harry
£290
18x13 inches

Hotel Iroquois
£1500
32x38 inches

Off 6th Avenue
£1200
22x26 inches

In Chinatown
£2800
43x55 inches

Just past the Vanguard
£1500
26x38 inches

Jim Broadbent
£950
19x16 inches

Mercer Street
£1800
38x32 inches

Sunday Afternoon NYC
£1500
42x32 inches

Sir Ian McKellen
£1200
29x25 inches

On Broadway
£2800
55x43 inches

In the artist's own words:

The New York Set - DOWNTOWN NYC

"I was interested in producing a strong vivid impact of vibrant neighbourhoods in Downtown Manhattan, with particular interest in the drama and complexity of the urban scene - 'the theatre of the street' and a strong sense of 'place'. In any selected view, I look for the extraordinary in the apparently ordinary. My interest centres on the fabric of the 'set of the street': The presence and personality of architecture, surface texture, light and shade, street furniture, shop fronts, signing, traffic.
The 'players' are of course people, individuals, groups and the observer (the viewer) interacting in changing cameos and fragmented sequences. Multiple sub-plots exist within any chosen viewpoint. There are endless possibilities in the rich source of urban chaos".

EXHIBITIONS:

• Garrick Milne Christies • Singer & Freidlander / Sunday Times Water Colour Exhibition Mall Galleries SW1 • European Illustration Exhibition National Theatre • The Children's Book Exhibition Guildhall EC2 • Artwork Auction Christies SW7 • Benson & Hedges Illustrators Gold Exhibition Five Dials Gallery WC2 • Prints & Drawings Cockpit Theatre Gallery NW8 • Meccanorma Illustrators Silver Awards Smiths Gallery WC2 • Growing Up with Art -prints & drawings Thumb Gallery W1 • Influences- drawings Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool • Group Show- drawings Bluecoat Gallery Liverpool • Double Images- prints & drawings Thumb Gallery W1 • Exhibition of prints & drawings Falmouth School of Art • The Doomsday Project - included on a BBC Video Disc devoted to British Contemporary Illustration

ASSOCIATION OF ILLUSTRATORS EXHIBITIONS:

• Five Dials Gallery WC2 • Thumb Gallery W1 • Smiths Gallery WC2 • Reed House W1 • Association of Illustrators Gallery W1

PUBLISHED WORK:

• Walker Books • Oxford University Press • Collins • Methuen • Tessloff (Germany) • Grund (France) • Blackie • Macmillian • David Bennett Books • Mallard Press • Early Learning Centre • Candlewick Press • Kaye & Ward • Heinemann • Parent & Child-Octopus • Mothercare • Julia Macrae Books