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Tony Hinchliffe

Tont Hinchliffe. black and white photograph of the artist

Tony Hinchliffe has always loved the sense of escapism that comes with creating artwork. He is passionate about exploring his creativity, constantly looking at developing his techniques so he can keep that feeling of energy within his work. He says, ‘When someone is emotionally moved by looking at my artwork that is a big motivation for me as I have always liked to please people through my painting.’

Tony Hinchliffe prefers to use oil paints, but does sometimes create an acrylic underpainting first as he really likes the way the oil paint behaves when applied over acrylic. He will often dilute the oil paint down with turpentine in the initial stages and use it like watercolour.

Tony’s figurative painting is all about depicting the mood and intimacy within a moment, using a loose approach to his brushwork, trying to be spontaneous while carefully considering placement of strong contrasting values to create depth. He has spent thousands of hours drawing figures from life, which has been fundamental to the development of his figurative painting style. This is mainly because he gets to observe directly the little details in body language that can suggest all manner of narrative, his favourite one is that everyone deserves to feel loved. He also teaches figure drawing and painting which means he is constantly examining, tweaking and improving the process.

Tony Hinchliffe explains, ‘My main inspiration comes from being outside, studying people, oceans, landscapes and skies in all weather conditions. I feel I have succeeded when I can look at my finished painting and recall accurately how I felt during the process of painting a little like re reading a diary.’

One of his latest projects is about depicting skies and landscapes at altitude, and he has a lot of fun exploring the skies in his paramotor, flying above, around and sometimes inside the clouds, the atmosphere and light at several thousand feet can be extremely fascinating and a real challenge to depict with a paint brush.

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