Tony Whitehouse


After painting for many years in oil, gouache and watercolour I began working in egg tempera in 2000. It is a technique that has been neglected since the early renaissance when it was replaced by oil paint. It recently regained popularity with an increasing number of artists discovering the unique properties of the medium.

Much of my work is centred on images drawn from Bredon Hill in Worcestershire and its surroundings. Walking on Bredon Hill there is an ever present sense that it has been an important place. Physical signs of Neolithic burial mounds, Iron Age hill forts and a medieval castle can still be seen. I painted those things that seem to me to have a special underlying quality.