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Antony James Bridge is a British artist living in the Malvern Hills.

Education and painting Antony Bridge is emerging as one of the country's premier English plein air artists. His passions for plein air came from a childhood wanting to paint from life in the open air at an early age. In 2008 Antony set the challenge to paint outside in the open air each day and managed to paint for over 600 days in all weathers. Antony doesn't just paint so called good light scenes like many artists do, he just gets out there in all weathers, rainy, grey, bright, misty and finds a location inspiring to paint, sets up either his french easel or pochade box and gets to work with his oil paints. Inspired by Turner, Seago, hockney, and many of the other past plein air painters, his aim is to increase the size of his work over the next years whilst on location. He has recently been painting with the Wapping Group, one of the oldest and most respected groups of plein air painters in the country.

Accreditations

On the Advisory board of the USA Plein air Magazine President of the UK Plein Air Society Owner of Pochade.co.uk and the UK's largest supplier of Plein air Equipment Member of the Plein air Brotherhood, see www.pleinairbrotherhood.co.uk