Tears

Tears is not easy ‘surface painting’, which is just a rendering of the appearance and can never fulfill all the exigencies of multiplicity and of unity that Tony felt he could show us in his unique crowded rendering. So his paintings are no imitations of nature, or hard etched, austere abstractions but he expresses his relationship with the piece of land and the people in it and he expresses his own feelings. These magical worlds with vision and soul, seem sometimes unacceptable to those that only can see the familiar and accepted. Of course those who know will recognize the shields and coup stick and the work done on the feathers. This is a fairly realistic rendering of a group of warriors...