Anthony is a lecturer for Wigan Council in the adult and community learning sector providing classes and demonstrations to art groups and students throughout the region. As a freelance lecturer, he travels around Lancashire and Cheshire and teaches at his own art groups in the Wigan Borough.
Anthony is a member of NAPA, the National Acrylic Painters Association. He is predominantly a figurative painter with a prolific output, which often overflows into the disciplines of landscape, still life and abstract painting. Chiefly commissioned based, his vast experience and natural talent for capturing the underlying character of his sitters have led to numerous projects, exhibiting his work throughout the UK and also retaining private collections across Europe and the USA
Arts for Health Exhibition Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh N H S, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan.
Warrington Open Art Exhibition, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington.
Arts for Health Exhibition Wrightington, Wigan and Leigh N H S, Royal Albert Edward Infirmary, Wigan Lane, Wigan.
Warrington Open Art Exhibition, Warrington Museum and Art Gallery, Warrington.
Cross Street Open Studio, Cross Street Standish.
Skarts, Stockport Open Art Exhibition, Stockport Art Gallery, Stockport Cheshire.
National Acrylic Painters Association, Pannett Art Gallery, Pannett Park, Whitby, North Yorkshire.
Python Open Art Exhibition, St Georges Gallery, Bolton
Turnpike Open Exhibition, Turnpike Gallery, Leigh
In he won the Judges Choice award at the Astley Hall Biennial Open Exhibition as well as 2nd prize for the best painting SKarts, Stockport Open Art Exhibition.
In he won 1st prize in the prestigious Art of Love Exhibition at the Oxo Tower Wharf in London with his painting The Others
September saw Anthony win the Daler Rowney best British painting category at the NAPA 23rd International Exhibition, held at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms in Shropshire.
Early in he was invited to appear in the BBC 2 program ‘Rolf on Lowry’, a televised event where he worked alongside Rolf Harris in the reproduction of Lowry’s painting of Piccadilly Gardens in Manchester. More recently () he was commissioned by Tote Sport to produce eight portraits of celebrities using the horsehair of the Grand National winner Numbersixvalverde. The finished paintings where exhibited at Aintree over the three days of the Grand National event they are now to be auctioned off to raise money for the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Imagine Appeal.
In late he was 1st prizewinner of the landscape/urban category at the SAA Artist of the Year Competition in Waterperry, Oxfordshire.
In he was the 1st prize winner of the figurative artists of the year award at the SAA.