Anthony Barrow is a member of NAPA, the National Acrylic Painters Association and has been painting for over 30 years. He holds a BA (Hons) Fine Art and Certificate in Education and is a professional artist and lecturer. Anthony is predominantly a figurative painter with a prolific output which often overflows into the disciplines of landscape, still life and abstract painting. Chiefly commissioned based, his vast experience and natural talent for capturing the underlying character of the sitter has led to numerous portrait commissions. His influences include Lucian Freud, Eric Fischl the Impressionists and the Renaissance artists Anthony uses colour to describe form. His paintings are created by a collection of small painterly marks. Although each individual mark is visibly different from its neighbour, rather like a piece of a mural, collectively these marks describe the surface and form, to expose the whole image. His distinctive and sophisticated painting technique generates a fantastic sense of atmosphere and character. Anthony Barrow has exhibited throughout the UK and has work in private collections across Europe. In 2005 he won 1st prize in the prestigious Art of Love Exhibition at the Oxo Tower Warf in London with his painting “The Others” Last year he won the Daler Rowney best British painting category at the NAPA 23rd International Exhibition, held at the Ludlow Assembly Rooms in Shropshire. Early in 2007 he was invited to appear in the BBC 2 program “Rolf on Lowry” a televised event where he worked alongside Rolf Harris in the reproduction of Lowry’s painting of ”Piccadilly Gardens” in Manchester. More recently he was commissioned by Tote Sport to produce eight portraits of celebrities using the horsehair of the 2006 Grand National winner Numbersixvalverde. The finished paintings where exhibited at Aintree over the three days of the Grand National event and are now to be auctioned off to raise money for the Alder Hey Children’s Hospital Imagine Appeal. “The context within which we experience an event will determine how that event is encoded and retained” (Oxford Companion to the Mind- Richard L Gregory- 1987)