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HOMAGE TO LEIGHTON-JONES
GENERAL CROSS-SECTION click to enlarge DYNAMIC ABSTRACTION A new series of work created from the development of spontaneous drawn and painted images.
click to enlarge HEALTHCARE ARTWORK
Healing Arts Programme initiative (HAPi) at Medway Maritime Hospital
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Tony
Crosse B.A. Hons, M.A. European Fine Art Click on photo to watch the video Onboard The Emerald Princess Nov 2008
The love of making art, architecture/renovations and music has
permeated the life of Tony Crosse since childhood and throughout an
astonishingly eclectic career as teacher, osteopath, engineer,
guitarist, pianist, humorist, healing arts consultant, after-dinner
speaker, and, of course always an artist. A
long time friend, confidante and biographer of Barry Leighton-Jones,
the celebrated English Social-Realist painter, Tony decided to consolidate and refine
his natural artistic abilities by returning to University to study
Fine Art. Between 1988 and 1996 he studied at the Kent Institute of
Art & Design at Canterbury, St Martin’s School of Art in London,
under the personal tuition of Barry Leighton-Jones in his Florida
studio, and with the Winchester School of Art in the UK and Barcelona. During
his career as an international performer, Tony’s drawings, that were
created ‘live’ on stage, were auctioned worldwide and were
instrumental in founding and funding the Tony Crosse Manometry
Laboratory at Guys Hospital, London, now at St Thomas Hospital. In his post as Healing Arts Consultant at the Medway & Maritime Hospital in the UK, between 1998 and 2006, Tony was responsible for making and commissioning over 100 works of art that still serve to enrich the environment and comfort patients, staff and visitors. Eleven of these paintings are included in Oil Paintings in Public Ownership (Kent), The Public Catalogue Foundation, published in London 2004. The project at the hospital became known as HAPi i.e. Healing Arts Programme initiative. He
has lectured at Christchurch University to music and medical students.
Tony on the steps of his house in Antibes and
with mentor & tutor, Barry Leighton-Jones Tony now lives on the Côte d’Azur in the South of France where he is creating his latest series of drawings and paintings: homage to the man who has inspired him for over 40 years: the Master of Clowns and Urchins, Barry Leighton-Jones. He is the author of : Leighton-Jones, A Retrospective1950 to 2005 The Life and Work of Leighton-Jones - DVD/movie The Sleeping Artist - an artists work book Salvador Dali and the Angelus - A study in sources and meanings Tony gives regular lectures and demonstrations
Links : www.leighton-jones.com
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