The Thorn Bush

Liverpool artist, Tony Rice, now living and working in Wanaka, studied at the Manchester Regional College of Art, taught in England and emigrated to NZ in 1987 with his NZ wife and family. Tony works in different media and 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.