Tony Prior - Painter
Defying MS through painting
After being diagnosed with MS ten years ago I've gone back to art for which I trained in the seventies as a way of helping me through the difficulties imposed by this disease.
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mood section 2
61 X 61cm
section detail -
mood section 3
61 X 61cm
printing on canvas -
mood section
Please use centimetres for measurements
detail of painting -
mood
61cmX61cm
printing on canvas -
mood
61cmX61cm
printing on canvas -
sea-sky mood
30X20
Printed from styrofoam plate -
Radiate
26 x 39
sun radiate -
Radiate 2
26 x 39
sun -
Radiate 3
26 x 39
sun and sea -
Anthony's Multiple Sclerosis
100 x 76
I'm painting about how my MS makes me feel
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Tile Grid
60 x 60
Recently I have been working in the medium of print because of the tremors caused by the MS, so I have difficulty holding a paint brush. -
Tiles
102 x 76
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Print paint 2
102 x 102
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Print paint 1
102 x 76
I used a styrofoam plate to apply a repeat print to the canvas -
final flash
100 x 76
when sun dissapears you get a flash of final light -
first flash
100 x 100
sun rise at sea -
spindrift
100 x 76
a love of sea and landscape -
Sky-prism
100 x 100
trying to see through clearly whats being obscured by Ms -
Grid Reference
100 x 100
This is about connections, knowing where I am
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tony prior
|Abstract art allows me freedom to work without having to represent anything in a dogmatic way but just a feeling of.
tony prior
ABSTRACT; No reference to material objects, hard to understand but more an emotion/feeling.
For me colour is mood and feeling.
tony prior
My painting
gives me hope and a feeling of life being worthwile and fun.
tony prior
a few years ago i built racing dinghies and still have a love of water, the sea.
tony prior
Ms has given me many new challenges overcoming mobility and being partially sighted.