Tony Chisholm's striking paintings – part abstract, part figurative – are colourful, bold and quite clearly inspired by the Yorkshire landscape that surrounds him.

His latest exhibition, at the Creative Arts Hub in Mirfield, is a collection entitled ‘On The Rocks’, depicting the region’s cliffs and waterfalls. It has taken him six years to amass the body of work.

Huddersfield-based Tony, who spent 38 years working as an art teacher and senior lecturer in art education and now works from a studio near Greenhead Park, walked the Pennines, Dales and coastal paths of eastern Yorkshire to sketch, photograph and produce small colour studies.

The resulting studio-produced artworks vary in scale from small, subtle interpretations of the landscapes he discovered to monumental paintings charting cliff faces, waterfalls and rock formations.

Tony currently works as Education Advisor to the National Arts Education Archive at the Yorkshire Sculpture Park and has exhibited widely.

His work was recently seen in a major exhibition at the North Light Gallery in Huddersfield staged by Art4Life to raise funds for Cancer Research UK.

‘On The Rocks’ can be seen from 10am to 3pm until tomorrow.

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