Antony Bridge is emerging as one of the country's premier English plein air artists based in the glourious Malvern Hills in the heart of England, his passions for plein air came from a childhood wanting to paint from life in the open air at an early age, having learnt to paint realism using the airbrush Antony went onto larger studio works, studying cloud formations which became popular with collectors across the UK and his other collectors in Africa, Monaco and the US.

In 2008 Antony set the challenge to paint outside in the open air each day and managed to paint for over 600 days in all weathers. Inspired by Turner, Seago, hockney, and many of the other past plein air painters, his aim is to increase the size of his work over the next years whilst on location.

Using his pochade box, a piece of art equipment he has brought back and started to sell online across the world on pochade.co.uk. Working in oil on millboard in a loose and painterly manner, with a main focus of landscape, Antony feels you learn more about the landscape and hopes to increase to a full size canvas on location in future years.

“Being at one with the essence of nature is to be at one with yourself: it needs a certain understanding of yourself.”

“The only thing that it is between the painter and the nature that they seek to encapsulate... Is the pochade box.”

“Energy, colour and light ”

The list below is a small selection of recent achievements:

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The Artist

Artist & Illustrator

PleinAir magazine, USA

Art and Action

Solo Shows

Malvern Autumn Festival Solo Show at the Malvern Library

3x Foal Yard Gallery, Bransford, Worcs

Gallery Exhibitions

John Noott Modern, Broadway

AK Wilson, Harpenden, UK

The original artwork store
Greenstage Gallery, Fromes Hill
The Great Atlantic Gallery, Monmouth
Royal Western Academy -156th Autumn Show
Royal Western Academy -155th Autumn Show
Royal Western Academy -Friends Show 2007
Malvern Theatres - 5 years constant showing
Blue Dot Gallery, Clifton, Bristol
The Cowleigh Gallery, Malvern
New Designers Exhibition, London
Claire's Galleries Jewellery Quarter, Birmingham
Birties of Worcester Gallery, Worcs.
Lyttelton House Gallery, Great Malvern,
The Gallery at Bevere, Worcester
Paint Box Gallery. Worcs.

Please feel free to email for any enquires.

Antony Bridge - Oil Painter

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Solo Shows

Gallery Exhibitions

antony@antonybridge.co.uk