TONY ALLAIN WAS FIVE YEARS OLD when he was caught drawing butterflies on the wallpaper in the family dining room, and the artistic bug never went away. As a small boy, growing up in the Channel Islands, his spare time was spent sketching – often ink drawings from life – and as an adult landscape artist, he paints vibrant and dynamic work that celebrates the colour and light that he sees in the world around him.
Completely self-taught, he was lucky enough to have a good art master at primary school who recognised his natural talent and enthusiasm and encouraged him to continue. Tony says “he was a wonderful man” who took him under his wing and introduced him to watercolour, which was a
