Exhibitions by Tony Foster
Watercolour Diaries from the Green River
I hiked, rafted and canoed to make the 16 paintings at selected sites along the river’s 780-mile journey from its headwaters in the Wind River Mountains of Wyoming to its confluence with the Colorado River in Utah.
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Fragile Planet – Watercolour Journeys into Wild Places
For nearly 40 years I have made my art in the world’s great wildernesses – rainforests, deserts, mountains, canyons, the Arctic and the tropics. Nobody can spend long periods of time in these places without becoming concerned for their future...
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Watercolour Diaries Cornwall to Colorado
Heraclitus III was acquired by the Yale Center for British Art in New Haven, Connecticut. A mini journey of Tony Foster’s art, this is a series of six paintings which comprise one artwork. It was executed in 2017 on Tony’s most recent painting expedition to the Grand Canyon.
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Great Basin and Copper Basin: Watercolour Diaries
During the summer of 2018, Tony returned to one of his favoured places to paint: Idaho’s Rocky Mountains. Invited to exhibit at Gail Severn Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho in 2019, Tony spent a few weeks wandering and painting in Idaho’s Copper Basin, a wilderness area that is part of the Salmon-Challis National Forest with spectacular views of the Pioneer Mountains.
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Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild
Beauty: (n) The quality that gives pleasure to the sight or aesthetic pleasure generally; a particular grace or excellence; a fine specimen of its kind.
Exploring Beauty – Watercolour Diaries from the Wild opened with a solo show at the Royal Watercolour Society, London on June 8th 2016, before travelling to the Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, UK, July 2016...
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Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American South West
This exhibition was done over a period of 3 years. These paintings - as with Foster's other work – are a result of intensive research, living and working on location, engaging with local and indigenous communities and promoting the cause of protection of wild places...
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Searching for a Bigger Subject: Everest and the Grand Canyon
The exhibition is the result of three journeys to paint Everest, and three to the Grand Canyon. It was shown in six cities: Truro, London, Sante Fe, Dallas, New York and Phoenix.
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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...
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Ice and Fire: Watercolour Diaries of Volcano Journeys
Tony Foster travelled to the Pacific Northwest, Montserrat, Bolivia and Hawaii. The result was an exhibition of forty of his works which exhibited until 31 July 1999.
Tony Foster has published a limited edition artist's book of his volcano journeys...
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Rainforest Diaries: Watercolours from Costa Rica
1991-93 Rainforest Diaries - a series of journeys in Costa Rica
It may not seem a very practical idea to go to remote and untamed rainforests, to live alone there in a little tent and attempt to paint them (especially in watercolour!) but that is what Tony Foster did...
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The Whole Salmon: Watercolour Diaries on the Salmon River
In June 2002 Tony Foster, with a group of companions from Sun Valley, Idaho and his brother, Steve, from England, travelled the entire length of the Salmon River (406 miles) in order to make a series of watercolour diaries which describe the river in all its aspects...
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After Lewis and Clark: Watercolour Diaries made following their route
In 1804 the official charge to Merriwether Lewis and William Clark from President Thomas Jefferson was to document the topography, geology and ecology of the land between the Mississippi and the Pacific Ocean for the future benefit and knowledge of the American people...
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Arid Lands: Watercolour Diaries of Journeys across Deserts
Journeys in deserts have constraints. As a matter of life and death each person needs a gallon of water per day and a gallon of water weighs ten pounds. In mounting this expedition Tony had to be meticulous in ensuring that the logistics of his re-supply caches, pickups and key contacts were accurately planned...
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