Watermarks: Watercolour Diaries - from Swamps to Icebergs

Tony Foster's exhibition, WaterMarks, features water in all its manifestations. A 42 page fully illustrated catalogue is available - contact Gerald Peters Gallery to purchase a copy.

Since 1982 Tony Foster has created a series of 'watercolour diaries' in the world's great wildernesses, travelling mostly on foot or by canoe or raft. Between 1999 and 2003 he  concentrated on representing water in all its forms. His exhibition, WaterMarks, Watercolour Diaries from Swamps to Icebergs is the fulfilment of this endeavour.

Tony has made river journeys on the Plátano River, Honduras, The Colorado through the Grand Canyon (the entire series of sixteen watercolour diaries has already been purchased by Denver Art Museum for its Western Art Collection) and the Suwannee from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico. He has also been to Greenland to paint icebergs and to the Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsular. In 2002 Tony rafted the entire length of the Salmon River, Idaho, (400 miles), to Yellowstone to paint the Geysers and to Guyana to paint Kaeiteur Falls. WaterMarks also is showing water paintings from Cornwall - including seascapes and Tywardreath Marsh, 500 metres from Tony's home. For this exhibition Tony even worked underwater in the Maldives, in order to make his paintings of coral reefs.