DescriptionTony Allain is a British artist who spent 10 years working and living in New Zealand. He has been painting for about 40 years, using watercolour and some oils for about 25 years but for the last 15 years using pastel. In 2015 Tony described his New Zealand experience:_x000D_
“Moving to New Zealand for 10 years allowed me to find new landscape subject matter. Rugged Mountains, huge rolling foot hills and sheep stations, magnificent High Country, waterfalls …the list is endless. The spectacular natural geography and the pure clean light in NZ have challenged me to look again at my chosen colour palette to satisfy my passion for that colour and light. Winter sees the Southern Alps and mountain passes looking splendid with their heavy covering of snow. It took some time for the landscape to reveal itself to me. It was the same as when I first went to Venice, it is almost too beautiful to paint. I tried to not be influenced by previous artists and explored the landscape to find my inspiration.” (Source: http://www.jacksonsart.com/blog/2015/03/05/aninterviewwithpastelartisttonyallain/) _x000D_