Originally i trained as an illustrator creating extremely detailed work which was evident in my earlier works. Shortly after graduating with a BA hons in Illustration I began to study the work of Edward Seago, I instantly resonated with his loose and expressive style of painting.

I worked very hard for many years to undo the need for unnecessary detailed descriptions. I made it my mission to create a similar sense of expression as Seago, while maintaining subtle areas of detail where I wanted to establish a focal point.

I consciously worked faster using larger brushes, avoiding the temptation to fuss with unessecary details or over describing something too early on.

This new approach to painting challenged my way of seeing, all of a sudden I was able to paint without the constraints of an over critical mindset, this sense of expression always makes me feel free.

I start every painting with a bold expressive mark, creating the under painting while concentrating only on the main elements of the composition. This way of working creates a wonderful variation of brush marks that appear abstract in places as I build up the layers adding a magical sense of depth and movement.

Why horses?

Fundamentally it is the complex muscular aesthetic of these powerful animals that inspires me to paint them. They have this wonderful depth of sensitivity in relation to their environment and that subtle way of communicating which never fails to rouse my interest.

I have always had a fascination with horses, as a child I would spend a lot of time studying and sketching them, I have made thousands of quick sketches accompanied by notes, creating a small library of information to recall on when I am painting.

As a child growing up we were very lucky to live close to the gallops so got to observe many fine racehorses exploring the concept of speed.

Tony Hinchliffe

2017 - Solo exhibition at The Chipping Norton Theatre
2017 - Two pieces accepted for Royal Society of Marine Artists - Mall galleries, London.
2018 - Two pieces accepted for Royal Society of Marine Artists - Mall galleries, London.
2018 - Solo exhibition at Art in the park Leamington Spa
2019 - two pieces exhibited at the Heseltine Gallery exhibition titled ‘Forty years on’
2019 - solo exhibition at Art in the park Leamington Spa
2019 - Oxford Art Society open Exhibition - 2 pieces accepted
2020 - Zuleika gallery, two pieces selected for their charity exhibition one of which was chosen as best in show.
2022 May - Solo exhibiton, Artique Gallery in Norwich
2022 Sept - Solo exhibiton, Artique Gallery in Canterbury
2022 Oct - Solo exhibiton at Artique Gallery in Windsor
2023 May - Solo show, Bluebird fine art, Derbyshire
2023 June - Solo show, Montagues gellery king’s Langley
2023 Sept - Solo exhibiton at Soho fine art Gallery in Cambridge
2024 April - St Albans art society, talk on figurative painting
2024 may - Solo show, Soho fine art, Canterbury
2024 Sept - Solo show Hellidon, Northamptonshire in collaboration with NROS
2025 Jan - Artwork accepted for the RBSA friends exhibition
2025 April - Solo show, Bluebird fine art, Derbyshire
2025 Sept - Solo show, Hellidon, Northamptonshire in collaboration with NROS