Tony Foster Now
currently touring IN THE U.S.
Watercolour Diaries from the Green River—Foster’s 18th Journey debuted at the Buffalo Bill Center of the West in Cody, Wyoming in May 2023. The exhibition captivated audiences with its introspective narrative of this little-known yet significant water system, the 730-mile-long tributary of the Colorado River. Following the exhibition’s success, it is currently touring at various venues throughout the United States. See below for details.
OPENING JUNE 2024 IN THE U.K.
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain—Adding to his accolades, Tony has been invited to showcase several of his Mt. Everest artworks in an exhibition at The Robert Cripps Gallery, Magdalene College, Cambridge. This exhibition is an exploration of Mallory's legendary mountaineering exploits accompanied by Tony’s captivating artworks from Tibet which were made during his third expedition to paint Mt. Everest. See below for details.
OPENING JULY 2025 IN THE U.K.
Exploring Time: A Painter’s Perspective—Tony continues working on his 19th Journey, a conceptually based endeavor that will open at the Royal Cornwall Museum in Truro, England. This ambitious project begun in 2007 promises to offer viewers a unique and thought-provoking exploration of the passage of time and its relationship to change in the natural world, through the lens of Tony's evocative artworks. See below for details.
CURRENTLY ON EXHIBITION AT THE FOSTER MUSEUM
Three complete Journeys by Tony Foster are on exhibition:
Travels without a Donkey in the Cévennes, Journey 1
Sacred Places: Watercolour Diaries from the American Southwest, Journey 15
Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild, Journey 16
Watercolour Diaries from the Green River
CURRENTLY ON TOUR - PRESENTED IN PARTNERSHIP WITH BUFFALO BILL CENTER OF THE WEST’S WHITNEY WESTERN ART MUSEUM
Tony Foster, From Lower Green River Lake Looking South South East to Squaretop, 2022
WHITNEY WESTERN ART MUSEUM
cody, wyoming
May 20 - October 22, 2023
mUSEUM OF nORTHERN aRIZONA
Flagstaff, arizona
NovEMBER 20, 2023 - JANUARY 15, 2024
bOOTH WESTERN ART MUSEUM
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA
FEBRUARY 10 - MAY 26, 2024
NATIONAL MUSEUM OF WILDLIFE ART
jACKSON HOLE, WYOMING
OCTOBER 26, 2024 - MAY 3, 2025
THE FOSTER MUSEUM
PALO ALTO, CALIFORNIA
TBD 2025 or 2026
George Mallory: Magdalene to the Mountain
OPENING JUNE 2024 at the Robert cripps gallery, Magdalene College, Cambridge
Tony Foster, Everest North Face from Above Rongbuk Monastery Looking South – 27 April, 2007
The Robert Cripps Gallery
June 20 - September 28, 2024
The New Library at Magdalene College
Cambridge, U.K.
Open 2-4pm Monday through Saturday (closed Sunday)
George Mallory was an English mountaineer who participated in the first three British expeditions to Mt. Everest in 1921, 1922, and 1924. Mallory and his climbing partner, Andrew ‘Sandy’ Irvine, did not return from the 1924 expedition, having lost their lives on Mt. Everest on June 8 of that year.
This exhibition celebrates the life of Magdalene College alumnus George Mallory and features original materials from the Magdalene College Archives. Presenting George Mallory's newly digitized letters to his wife Ruth, the exhibition brings to life his time as a student at Magdalene, his experiences serving in the British Army in France during WWI, his time on the three expeditions to Everest, and his lecture tour in the United States.
Artworks by Tony Foster loaned for this exhibition depict the East and North faces of Mt. Everest in Tibet, following the approach routes taken by George Mallory over his three expeditions. All the paintings were created at high altitude en plein air in 2007.
Note: Visitors are requested to stop in at The Porters' Lodge in First Court on Magdalene Street to arrange access before visiting The Robert Cripps Gallery. Visitors are welcome in The Robert Cripps Gallery and Pepys Library in Magdalene College.
Exploring Time: A Painter’s Perspective
Opening July 2025 at the Royal Cornwall Museum, England
ROYAL CORNWALL MUSEUM
TRURO, ENGLAND
JULY 8 - OCTOBER 25, 2025
THE RWS GALLERY
ROYAL WATERCOLOUR SOCIETY
LONDON, ENGLAND
NOVEMBER 6 - December 20, 2025
Dayton Art institute
DAyton, ohio
February 11 - May 26, 2026
TBA U.S. VENUES
summer 2026 - 2028
Since 2007, Tony has been developing his 19th Journey with a complex idea as its foundation: Time. Foster is developing a series of works that explore both a macro and micro look at time and how it affects, sculpts, and alters the land, from brief changes in weather and light to seasonal changes to biological and geological time. He states his motivation:
“I want to draw attention to the unseen forces that create place.”
ArtBox
year-round exhibitions of local Cornwall artisans in Tywardreath, England
Tony Foster with his Lockdown Diary–56 Days, attending its exhibition in Cornwall's smallest art museum, ArtBox, May 2020. Photo by Roshni Tamang Mitchell
In Tony’s home village of Tywardreath, an abandoned telephone box has been transformed into one of the world’s smallest art galleries. British Telecom’s classic red kiosks are now obsolete because of cell phones. But Tony, along with two of his friends, Roshni Tamang Mitchell and Dana Roberts, saw opportunity in the one situated on a main thoroughfare in their community and leased the phone box for £1 (one pound) to establish a non-profit-making venture. Since May of 2019 they have mounted a series of small and wonderful exhibitions in the phone box for passersby to enjoy. From the initial exhibition that was a tribute to John Lobb, a 19th century Tywardreath farm labourer who went on to become Royal Bootmaker to a more recent installation of found objects from Tony’s own journeys, this relic has become a source of discovery, fun and education for the community.