Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist Nigel Slater write or paint

write or paint

engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned-and-painted imagery” (New York Times)

and what’s more

other times deliberately biblical or oblique

existence seems to lose its substance

Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist Nigel Slater write or paintAs a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. Hed read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Maori history. As a young man he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice imprisoned, spent time in a mental hospital, battled destructive addictions, and experienced unrequited love and loneliness. All of this would become the underworld of his art, the subterranean realm where he could dwell so as to create work