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Watercolour Diaries - from Swamps to Icebergs

Overview by Tony Foster

Exhibition in Exeter · 29 March - 31 May 2003

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WaterMarks Catalogue
 
 

WaterMarks

Tony Foster's exhibition, WaterMarks, features water in all its manifestations. A forty-two page fully illustrated catalogue is available from all participating galleries from 30 March 2003 and the new paintings are on sale from that date.

Tony has made river journeys on the Plátano River, Honduras, The Colorado through the Grand Canyon (the entire series of sixteen watercolour diaries has already been purchased by Denver Art Museum for its Western Art Collection) and the Suwannee from the Okefenokee Swamp to the Gulf of Mexico. He has also been to Greenland to paint icebergs and to the Hoh River on the Olympic Peninsular. In 2002 Tony rafted the entire length of the Salmon River, Idaho, (400 miles), to Yellowstone to paint the Geysers and to Guyana to paint Kaeiteur Falls. WaterMarks also is showing water paintings from Cornwall - including seascapes and Tywardreath Marsh, 500 metres from Tony's home.


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Tony Foster at Kaeiteur Falls,
Guyana, September 2002
Photograph © 2002 Mike Nathan

The exhibition opened at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter, UK (29 Mar 2003 - 31 May 2003) and then goes to James Graham & Sons Gallery, Madison Avenue, New York (10 Jul 2003 - 23 Aug 2003), Montgomery Gallery, Market Street, San Francisco (18 Sep 2003 - 11 Oct 2003), Frye Art Museum, Seattle (30 October 2003 - 11 Jan 2004) and the National Museum of Wildlife Art, Jackson Hole, Wyoming (4 Nov 2004 - 30 Jan 2005).

This rest of this webpage provides an overview of Tony's recent adventures and shows illustrative samples of the work he has derived from them.

For a more complete view of his work, please see four recent and more detailed webpages: WaterMarks 0   WaterMarks 1   WaterMarks 2   WaterMarks 3   and   WaterMarks 4 .

 
 

 

Okefenokee Swamp 1999

 
 


Okefenokee
Three Days


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· Three Days Canoeing across the Okefenokee Swamp ·
Triptych each 11" x 13¾   2" x 4"
 
 


Okefenokee
Day 1


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· From Maul Hammock looking 210º SSW ·
11" x 13¾   2" x 4"
 
 

 

Suwannee River 1999

 
 


Suwannee


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· Last Days on the Suwannee River ·
13" x 31   2" x 6"
 
 

 

Colorado Grand Canyon 2001

 
 


Colorado
Mile 166.5


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Sixteen Days Rafting the Colorado - Mile 166.5
10" x 10"   2" x 6"
 
 

 

Honduras - 2001

 
 


Rio Plátano I
Camp 2


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· Rio Plátano I · Camp 2 looking downriver ·
10" x 14"   2" x 4"
 
 


Transport


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Transporting rafts and supplies to the headwaters of El Rio Plátano (Honduras) Feb 2001
 
 


Rio Plátano II
Camp 3


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· Rio Plátano II · Camp 3 looking upriver ·
12" x 16"   2" x 4"
 
 


In Camp


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In camp - El Rio Plátano 2001
Michael Newburg / Tony Foster / Fito Steiner
 
 


Rio Plátano VII
Camp 7


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· Rio Plátano VII · Camp 7 looking upriver ·
12" x 16"   2" x 6"
 
 


En route


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En route - El Rio Plátano 2001
Companions
 
 


Rio Cangrejal


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· El Rio Cangreahal looking upriver below Don Pepés · 4 days ·
21½" x 30"   3" x 8"
 
 

 

Greenland - 2001

 
 


Tony at work 1


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Tony Foster at work near Kingitoq, Greenland, August 2001
Photograph © Peter Murray
 
 


Ilulissat


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· Ilulissat Greenland from 400' above our camp at Kingitoq looking 220° True SW across the Kangia ·
27½" x 60"   4" x 29"
 
 


Tony at work 2


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Tony Foster at work near Kingitoq, Greenland, August 2001
He mixes gin with his paint water to stop it freezing
Photograph © Peter Murray
 
 


Ilulissat


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· Ilulissat · Greenland · Looking 220° SW (True) from Kingitoq across the Kangia ·
30" x 40"
 
 


Tony at work 3


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Tony Foster at work near Kingitoq, Greenland, August 2001
Photograph © Peter Murray
 
 


Eqe


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· Looking 330º NW from Eqe to Eqip sermia ·
22½" x 31"   2" x 8"
 
 


Ilulissat Octet
(some for sale)


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· Greenland · Octet · (sorry - out of sequence but correct below)
Each 10" x 14"   2" x 3½"
 
 


Ilulissat IV


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· Ilulissat IV between Kingittoq / Sermermuit looking SW ·
10" x 14"   2" x 3½"
 
 

 

Maldives - 2002

 
 


Vilamendhoo I


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Vilamendhoo I
9¾" x 10¼"   9¼" x 11"   2" x 7"
 
 

 

Guyana - 2002

Many thanks to Mike Nathan for these lovely photos

 
 


Kaeiteur Falls


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Tony Foster at Boy Scout Lookout, Kaeiteur Falls with morning mist,
Guyana, September 2002
Photograph © 2002 Mike Nathan
 
 


Kaeiteur Falls


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Melville and Tony at Kaeiteur Falls,
Guyana, September 2002
Photograph © 2002 Mike Nathan
 
 


Kaeiteur Falls


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Kaieteur Falls - Tony and unfinished painting,
Guyana, September 2002
Photograph © 2002 Mike Nathan
 
 


Kaieteur Falls
Finished Work


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· From Kangaruma to Kaieteur Falls · 41.7 miles Upriver / Looking SW from Boyscout Lookout ·
27½" x 40"   3" x 39"
 
 


Amatuk Falls


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Tony sketching Amatuk Falls,
Guyana, September 2002
Photograph © 2002 Mike Nathan
 
 

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