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Artworks
Anthony Eyton
Brixton Road Spring, 2020Oil130 x 95 x 3 cm£18,500Further images
Senior Academician Anthony Eyton has travelled extensively throughout his career, exploring India, Israel and Sudan; undertaking residencies in diverse locations including Hong Kong, Ethiopia and Cornwall. These trips – as well as his immediate domestic surroundings – continue to inform Eyton’s practice as he continues to make work daily in his 97th year.
Senior Academician Anthony Eyton has travelled extensively throughout his career, exploring India, Israel and Sudan; undertaking residencies in diverse locations including Hong Kong, Ethiopia and Cornwall. These trips – as well as his immediate domestic surroundings – continue to inform Eyton’s practice as he continues to make work daily in his 97th year.
Making figurative work rich in colour in a gestural, expressive style, Eyton’s most recent pictures have taken the interior of his home and studio in Brixton, South East London, as their subject. Windows, towering piles of books. teetering mounds of half-used paint tubes and the spiral staircase in his house have all featured in his paintings as markers of a particular space and time. In this contemplative work, Eyton ponders the advent of spring from inside his home; the window as a motif having gained additional symbolism during the global lockdown period this year.
Eyton was elected a Royal Academician in 1976 and has received numerous awards including the John Moores Prize in 1972. He has exhibited his work widely and was invited by the Tate Gallery to work in the Bankside Power Station prior to it becoming Tate Modern in 2000. Since then he has been Resident Artist at the Eden Project in Cornwall and in 2018 was given a solo exhibition of new work in the Keeper’s House at RA. He lives and works in London.
