Anthony Eyton RA

Education: studied art at Fine Art at Reading University in 1941 before serving in the army from 1942 to 1947. He went on to study at Camberwell School of Art from 1947 to 1950, and in 1951 received an Abbey Major Scholarship, taking him to work in Italy.

Teaching: Head of Painting at St Lawrence College, Kingston, Ontario in 1969, and taught at the Royal Academy Schools from 1964 to 1999.

One-man exhibitions: New Grafton Gallery, London in 1973, Newcastle-upon-Tyne Polytechnic Gallery in 1978, the Imperial War Museum, London in 1983. A retrospective of his work was held at the South London Art Gallery in 1980 and Browse and Darby, London, from 1978 to 2009.

Group Exhibitions: Drawings of People at the Serpentine Gallery (1976), British Painting 1952-1977 at the Royal Academy of Arts (1977), the Arts Council's British Art Show (1979), the Hayward Annual in 1982 and The Hard Won Image at the Tate Gallery (1984).

Commissions: Artistic Records Committee to observe and paint the Gurkha regiment in Hong Kong and the New Territories. In 1985 he was resident Artist at the Leicester Royal Infirmary, with subsequent exhibitions held at the hospital, Surrey University and the King's Fund Centre. In 1996, the Government Art Collection commissioned him to record the centenary of the British Embassy in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Invited by the Tate Gallery to work in the Bankside Power Station prior to its becoming Tate Modern, and two pictures subsequently entered the collection. Since 1999 he has been Resident Artist at the Eden Project in Cornwall with exhibition 'Evolution of a Cornish Clay Pit' 1999 – 2009.

Awards include: The Kingston Whig-Standard Award, Ontario (1969), John Moores Prize Winner (1972), Grocers' Company Fellowship to work in Italy (1973), First Prize at the Second British International Drawing Biennale, Middlesborough (1975) and the Royal Academy of Art's Charles Wollaston Award (1989). He was elected a Member of the London Group in 1958, Member of the Royal West of England Academy in 1984, Royal Academician, Member of the Royal Watercolour Society, Member of the Royal Cambrian Academy in 1993, and an Honorary Member of the Pastel Society.

Publications: Eyton's Eye, Anthony Eyton A Life in Painting, by Jenny Percy Published Royal Academy of Arts

Selected Public Collections
Arts Council of Great Britain
British Museum
Guildhall Art Gallery
Government Picture Collection
Unilever Tate Gallery