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TONI STOREY Toni was born in Essex in 1959. The family moved to Yorkshire during the early 1970s and then settled in Devon a decade later. Toni's mother is a sculptress, her grandfather was also an artist. As a child she was rarely without pencil, paintbrush or crayon in hand - art predominated at school. Toni trained in Fine Art at Jacob Kramer College of Art in Leeds and Falmouth School of Art. Since then she has lived with her husband and two sons in London, Montreal, Yorkshire, Oxfordshire and Warwickshire. *** Her career has spanned a myriad of creative disciplines: Teaching painting and drawing in Canada. Tutoring Art at GCSE, A'Level and Foundation level in the UK. Running an interior design company, specialising in murals and trompe l'oeil. Illustrating childrens' books, greeting cards and company logos. Display coordinator: Organising art exhibitions and managing events; planning interior design projects; creating innovative displays; making and designing theatre scenery and props, and producing large paintings or sculptures for public display. Toni has continued to sell her artwork during the past twenty eight years, exhibiting in the UK and Canada, and undertaking a variety of commissions. *** A visit to Cornwall in 2007 re-ignited the desire to devote herself exclusively to painting. Recalling her time at Falmouth evoked happy memories as a student and of working with leading artists such as Patrick Heron in that most potent of landscapes. The Cornish epiphany resulted in Toni leaving her job in 2008 to resume her passion for painting, producing haunting images from the natural world. *** Toni's latest art work branches into three categories: The Soul Scapes - These evocative landscapes are the result of an emotional response to a place, a time and a season. Literature, music and myth are woven into the psyche of each painting. Cosmic Worlds - Depictions from the microcosmic world of cell structures and the macrocosmic solar system. Science serves as a prominent muse for Toni's dramatic work. Produce - Depictions of fruits represent the transience of life following the traditional theme of the Vanitas genre. July 2009 *
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