Tony Rice

The below quotation from The Leonardo De Vinci Treatise on Painting inspired Tony Rice to throw off the shackles of traditional art and to explore the accidental, either as a point of imaginative departure, or as a means of obtaining finished results.

Careful not to allow his imagery or techniques to become sterile, Tony Rice works in different media, in various sizes, often avoiding traditional painters tools. Although he paints in a purely abstract mode, dealing with shapes and forms, colours and textures, in terms of what they actually are, not what they represent, it is during the process of selection that he creates pictures rich in echoes of land, sea and sky.

"No man ever lived who had learned as much about sculpture, painting, and architecture, but still more that he was a very great philosopher."