solar|acid rules| feline|sweet dreams, Tony Oakey, Kilkenny, Ireland

Tidal equilibrium, oil, 30 x 40 cm

All who leave this earth go to the moon, oil, 36 x 46 cm

Mary had a little lamb.....and the doctor fainted, oil, 23 x 28 cm

Feline dreams, acrylic, 30 x 40 cm

There's a universe inside my head, oil, 25 x 25 cm

Sweet dreams are made of this, oil, 61 x 76 cm

Solar furnace heats the sky, oil, 40 x 30 cm

Metaphysical self-portrait, oil, 76 x 51 cm

Living close to the edge, oil, 20 x 50 cm

Deoxyribonucleic acid rules o.k., oil, 25 x 25 cm

Watch the echoes bounce through time, oil, 25 x 25 cm

To wonder is to understand, oil, 46 x 36 cm

About Artist Tony Oakey

Tony Oakey was born in 1959 and lives in Piltown, Co. Kilkenny. He studied for two years at Waterford College of Art & Design and began to exhibit his work in 1992. He had his first sell-out show in Kilkenny Arts Festival 1995. Such was the demand for his work that in 2000 he decided to give up his job to concentrate fully on his art. In 2003 he was awarded a two week residency at Cill Rialaig. Working mostly in oils and acrylics he continues to develop his work into a recognisable style of his own.
For Tony, painting is a mental voyage, a journey full of colour and surprise. He treats each day as a new canvas with new thoughts and dreams to influence him. His surroundings, his music and his mood will all sub-consciously contribute to the painting in progress. This way of painting opens his mind into a world of discovery, a less serious place where there are no boundaries between imagination and reality.
Tony's work can be seen throughout the year at his San-Pitz Studio in Piltown, Co. Kilkenny.
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