Tony Allain

BORN Channel Islands (English Channel)

Background

Tony Allain has been painting for over thirty five years. He is a painter of light and movement, with a complete understanding of his surroundings.

Born and raised in the Channel Islands, he moved to paint and live with the “Painters of Light” in St. Ives in Cornwall before moving to Nelson, New Zealand.

The subjects he chooses are varied, ranging from marine and landscapes, town and street scenes through to still life. His painting has a brisk impressionist style, which is suited to the use of pastels, although equally successful in oils.

Tony has exhibited extensively over the years, his work can be found in many leading New Zealand, London and provincial galleries as well as private and corporate collections, including the Maritime Museum Guernsey.

His work is regularly featured in The Artist and Leisure Painter, Practique des Arts and The Pastel Journal.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

1975-1990 Framecraft/Studio Gallery, Guernsey CI
1976 Visual Arts Festival, France
1976–1980 R.W.S.Art Club, London
1977 Duke of Richmond CI
1977 The Georgian House, Alderney CI
1977 The Royal Hotel Hall, Guernsey CI
1992 Brighton Museum/Art Gallery UK
1996 Ferens Art Gallery Hull UK
1997 Chichester Centre of Arts UK
2000 Out of the Blue Gallery, Cornwall UK
2000–2005 Island Fine Arts, IOW
2001 Affordable Arts Fair, London
2001 Rooster & Rat Gallery, Cornwall UK
2001 The Gallery Cork Street, London
2001–2003 Century Gallery, Windsor UK
2001 Panter & Hall, Mayfair, London
2001 Chelsea Arts Fair, London
2003 John Noot Galleries, Broadway UK
2003–2009 Coach House Gallery, Guernsey CI
2004 Mall Galleries, London
2005–2006 Royal Society of Marine Artists,
2006 Seachel Art Gallery NZ
2007-2009 Flagstaff Gallery, Auckland NZ
2010 Selwyn Gallery, NZ
2011 Mansfield Gallery, Nelson, NZ
2011 Exhibitions Gallery, Wellington, NZ

REPRESENTED

Trevor Victor Harvey Gallery, Sydney, Australia
Island Fine Arts, Bembridge. IOW
The Saffron Gallery, Timaru, NZ
Statements Gallery, Napier NZ
D’art Gallery, Devon, UK
Panter & Hall, Mayfair, London
John Noott Gallery, Cotswolds, Oxford UK
Lyndhurst Gallery, Hampshire, UK
Flagstaff Gallery, Auckland NZ
Coach House Gallery, Guernsey CI
Mansfield Gallery, Nelson, NZ
Taylor Jensen Fine Arts, Palmeston Nth, NZ
Gallery by the Sea, Sumner/Akaroa, NZ
Exhibitions Gallery of Fine Art, Wellington NZ

AWARDS

Inaugural Tasman/Nelson Open Art Award

First prize 2006
Peoples Choice 2006

Southland Art Society

Best still life 2006
Merit Award 2007

The Pastel Journal

Honourable Award: Landscape 2008

Pastel Artists of New Zealand

First prize: Unison Cup 2010

COMMISSIONS

2004 Twelve paintings for the state rooms on board the “Queen Mary 2” the new flag ship for the Cunard Line.

MEMBERSHIP

New Zealand Academy of Fine Arts
Pastel Artists of New Zealand