Anthony Green

I am a narrative artist. All my pictures tell stories - especially one big story.
Nearly fifty years ago, whilst we were students at The Slade,
I met and fell passionately in love with a very beautiful girl.

These “works” and another 500 littered around the world tell it all.
Courtship, marriage, two daughters, anniversaries, parents, in-laws, sex, still lives,food, endless memories, sadness, immortality, mortality, happiness,
old age, wrinkles…… and a golden wedding is coming up soon.

I don't do “angst” - so if one of my pictures brightens your
day it may remind you that we do all live forever …..
Anthony Green Little Eversden, 2007

Anthony Green was born in 1939 and studied at the Slade School of Art, where he won the Henry Tonks Prize for drawing in 1960. This was followed by the Gulbenkian Purchase Award in 1963 and the Harkness Fellowship in the USA from 1967-69. He was elected to the Royal Academy in 1971. He is a Fellow of University College, London and serves as a Trustee of the Royal Academy.

Green's work is narrative and figurative and very frequently autobiographical, his subject matter almost always inspired by his relationships with his wife and family. He has experimented with irregular shaped compositions since 1966, which have on occasion progressed to freestanding 'sculptures' incorporating real objects as well as beautifully executed attention to detail. One of the most popular artists in the Royal Academy of Art Summer Exhibition each year, his paintings intrigue, amuse and enchant his many fans with their mood-enhancing sense of colour, humour and remarkable ability to capture life's events, both happy and sad, in a way that people readily identify with.

Anthony Green's work is included, among many other venues, in the public collections of the Tate Gallery, Setagaya Museum, Tokyo and the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. He has also exhibited internationally in London, New York, Berlin, Tokyo, Sidney, Chicago etc. He has had over 100 one-man shows since 1962.

Anthony Green and Printmaking

In the past Anthony Green has successfully adopted traditional methods of printmaking such as silkscreen and lithography. His most recent prints use the giclee process, but are not reproductions of existing paintings; instead Anthony creates unique compositions using a wide range of media including oil paint, watercolour, oil pastel, decoupage, pencil and collage, combined with reproduced details of older paintings and drawings, family archives and personal ephemera. The results are high quality productions, utilizing high saturation of top quality 350gsm Somerset Velvet archival paper with archival inks.