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As
an artist left handed and with great awareness of life
who used shades of colour so true and varied on canvas
slight in frame but strong in friendship and integrity
a smiling round face with perceptive eyes that saw all.
A lonely man who never envied nor wished more for himself
a person full of passions in Iife and for all its seasons
whether they be either winter, spring, summer or autumn
each period gave an inspiration to create a new dimension.
Anthony,
you leave behind a legacy so very very diverse in your
lasting works that so depict natural pictures landscapes
seascape or still life they are your estate as each canvas
holds part of a story of a kind life.
Tony,
Dear friend and brother, I say farewell be at peace within
the landscape of your short life.
Gavin
Boyd Stevenson
12th
May 2000
©Gavin
Boyd Stevenson, May 2000,
23 Wellesley Road,
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Biographical
Anthony
Amies was educated 1961-4 Great Yarmouth College of
Art; 1964-70 Slade School of Fine Art, University College
London - Painting graduate, Printmaking post-graduate.
He
won several prizes when at the Slade including the Tonks
Prize for Drawing, and was a prize winner in the 1967
Young Contemporaries at the Tate, and the Royal Commonwealth
in 1968.
In
1977 Anthony received an Arts Council Award, having
won first prize in 'Camden 73' four years earlier.He
was closely involved in the teaching of art in Camden
from 1973-1995 at the Camden Institute (ILEA), the Camden
Arts Centre and the Camden School of Art.
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Anthony
in front of his painting of the Royal Free Hospital,
Hampstead, from Hampstead Heath. It is now on display
at the hospital.
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