I love Anthony Green's work. I think out of all the British artists in the last 20 years, no-one can surpass him for sheer poetic beauty. What helps to set his work apart is the fact that it it not constrained by the rectangular width within a frame. There are no edges. It makes the work so much more powerful - the shape of it.

It's hard to put into words. It's how it makes you feel and the way it makes me feel is the way it should: makes the hair on the back of my head stand on end just being in front of his work.

Isn't that the whole point of art?

Don't believe me? Just check out the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in which he exhibits every year and compare his work to the other exhibitors. Well there is no comparsion.

He is so far ahead of his time that the rest of us haven't reached there yet.

Anthony Green's work makes all the other work seem meaningless. And a drab meaninglessness at that!

Green lives and work in Cambridgeshire. He is a Trustee of the Royal Academy. His work is in over ten major public collections including the Tate Gallery and the V&A in London.

Painter in oil.

Educated: Highgate School, London, N.6..

Married Mary Cozens-Walker. Two daughters.

He has exhibited in over 100 one-man shows worldwide since 1967.

Signs work: "Anthony Green", "A.Green", "Anthony", "A.G.", or not at all.

Address:

Anthony Green
40 High St.
Little Eversden
Cambs.
CB3 7HF
UK

Dateline:

• 1956-60: Studies at the Slade School of Art

• 1960-61: Receives a French Government scholarship. Lives in Paris for a year

• 1961: Marries Mary Cozens-Walker

• 1962: Solo exhibition at the Rowan Gallery

• 1964: Teaches at the Slade School of Art

• 1966: Exhibits at the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. Exhibits there every year

• 1967-69: Receives a Harkness Fellowship to the United States. Lives in New Jersey and California

• 1971: Elected ARA

• 1977: Wins the Royal Academy Summer Exhibit of the Year. Elected RA

• 1978: Retrospective at the Royal Academy of Arts

• 1987-88: Retrospective in Japan

• 1991: Becomes a Fellow of University College London

• 1995: Solo exhibition at the Piccadilly Gallery, London

• 1996: Makes shortlist for the Jerwood Painting Prize

• 1998: Solo exhibition at the Nishimura Gallery, Tokyo, Japan

• 2000: His work Resurrection, a pictorial sculpture for the Millennium, tours British cathedrals

  Solo exhibitions at the Victoria Art Gallery, Bath and the Piccadilly Gallery, London

• 2001: Solo exhibitions at the North Light Gallery, Huddersfield, Yorkshire and the Galerie Rose, Hamburg

• 2003: Solo exhibitions at the Chenderit School, Banbury and the Study Gallery, Poole

• 2004: Solo exhibitions at Buckingham University, Buckingham and Fine Art Society, London

• 2005: Solo exhibitions at the Curwen Gallery, London; Whittington Fine Art, Henley on Thames; The Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne; Chenderit School, Oxfordshire; John Davies Gallery, Gloucestershire

• 2006: Solo exhibitions at the ArtSpace Gallery, London; Churchdown School , Gloucester; Ulster Museum; Chigwell School

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