Monthly Meeting & Demo with Tony Allain | 3 March 2025

Tony is a Scottish based artist. He is an award winning painter, instructor and author and has been painting for all of his life.

A member of the Pastel Society London, & a member of the Royal Society of Marine Artists among others. A painter of colour, light and movement with a complete understanding of his surroundings.

Tony was born and raised on Guernsey in the Channel Islands where he studied Life Drawing and painting from Life. He moved to live and paint in Cornwall to capture the unique clarity of light on the peninsular of the West Country. Tony has exhibited extensively over the years, his work can be found in many leading galleries as well as private and corporate collections worldwide, including the Maritime Museum, Guernsey and Queen Mary 2, Cunard Liner. He has exhibited with The Pastel Society of America in New York, the Royal Society of Marine Artists, London, The International Pastel Exhibition, Suzhou, China and the Pastel Society, Mall Galleries, London. A move to New Zealand in 2006 proved to be a turning point in his career with the acceptance as a Master of the Pastel Artists of New Zealand, a Signature member of the Pastel Society of America, elected an Eminent Pastelist of the International Association of Pastel Societies. His work is regularly featured in The Artist Magazine, the Pastel Journal and the Practique des Arts. Tony now lives and works in Scotland.

.