Tony Plant British
Tony Plant’s childhood footprint is set deep into the cliffs and coves of his native Cornwall. Later, at Chelsea Art school, Plant was fortunate to have outstanding tutors -Roger Ackling, Trevor Sutton and Helen Chadwick who's post modernist art celebrated the transience of life: with her famous ‘Piss Flowers 1991-2’ she made casts of her own piss drawings in the snow. Chadwick’s snow and Plant’s sand - using nature as their muse and canvas, just as the aboriginal rock artists did 35,000 years ago.
Now, away from modern art education and into the world - we see one man and a rake, a romantic landsman, transferring journeys and movements, across canvass and into the sand with the mindfulness of a Zen monk attending to his gravel garden, or the Medieval farmer hand ploughing a field of perfectly aligned furrows.
Tony Plant dances around the tide, playing a game with nature’s light and nature’s scale, filming the transformation with his drone at different times of night and day - we are reminded that Monet did something close with his series of thirty ‘Haystacks 1890-91.’ The beauty of Plant’s whole beach drawings is that they never overwhelm the landscape, instead they nestle into the margins between rock, sand and sea - ornamental tracery on a monumental scale gifting the viewer an unexpected poetic experience.
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Tony PlantBoat Bird, 2021Found wood and copper, steel, brass nails, boat paint found in St Ives harbour 20 years ago, I then mounted this onto a Hickory set square owned by my father. It has been with me in numerous studios over the years, no it is time to let it fly.33 x 22 x 4 cmTony Plant, Boat Bird, 2021£ 800.00
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Tony PlantSand Sand Sand, 2020Oil and acrylic on carved wood27 x 46 cmTony Plant, Sand Sand Sand, 2020£ 800.00
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Tony PlantTides Rising Tides, 2020Oil and acrylic on carved wood27 x 46 cmTony Plant, Tides Rising Tides, 2020£ 800.00
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Tony PlantArt Is Medicine I, 2021Carved wood, acrylic, oil and found objects60 x 22 x 3 cmTony Plant, Art Is Medicine I, 2021£ 600.00
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Tony PlantArt Is Medicine II, 2021Carved wood, acrylic, oil and found objects60 x 37 x 3 cmTony Plant, Art Is Medicine II, 2021£ 600.00
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Tony PlantArt Is Medicine III, 2021Carved wood, acrylic, oil and found objects60 x 22 x 3 cmTony Plant, Art Is Medicine III, 2021£ 500.00
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Tony Plant5 Carn Cottage, 2020Oil and acrylic on carved wood27 x 46 cmTony Plant, 5 Carn Cottage, 2020£ 800.00
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Tony PlantA Blue Floats Above The Trees, 2020Oil and acrylic on carved wood27 x 46 cmTony Plant, A Blue Floats Above The Trees, 2020£ 800.00
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Tony PlantWood Walking , 2020Oil and acrylic on carved wood19 x 24 cmTony Plant, Wood Walking , 2020Sold
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Tony PlantNight Walk Cliff #2, 2021Oil, acrylic on canvas with assembled found objects (2D wall sculpture)Tony Plant, Night Walk Cliff #2, 2021£ 850.00
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Tony PlantNight Walk Cliff #3, 2021Oil, acrylic on canvas with assembled found objects (2D wall sculpture)Tony Plant, Night Walk Cliff #3, 2021£ 850.00
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Tony PlantNight Walk Cliff, 2018Oil, acrylic on canvas with assembled found objects (2D wall sculpture)Tony Plant, Night Walk Cliff, 2018£ 850.00
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Tony PlantNight Walk Moon, 2018Oil, acrylic on canvas with assembled found objects (2D wall sculpture)Tony Plant, Night Walk Moon, 2018Sold