Tony Foster, Fall Colour in Great Meadow, Concord, 2012 | Watercolor and graphite on paper, maple leaf, acrylic box, map | 36 x 52 3/4 in. / 3 3/8 x 47 5/8 in. / 2 1/8 x 6 1/2 in. — Tony Foster, *Fall Colour in Great Meadow, Concord*, 2012 | Watercolor and graphite on paper, maple leaf, acrylic box, map | 52 7/16 x 64 in.

Tony Foster Journey 16 | 2007–16 | 52 artworks

Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild

Painting locations: Alaska, Arizona, Borneo, Cayman Islands, Chile, France, Greenland, Maldives, Massachusetts, Nepal, New Hampshire, Tibet, United Kingdom (Cornwall and Devon), Vermont

Tony Foster’s 16th Journey celebrates the wild beauty of nature. Over the course of nearly a decade, Foster invited leading scientists, explorers, writers, environmentalists, and mountaineers to nominate a beautiful wild place. These sites inspired the resulting paintings.

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Gallery of Artworks

Tony Foster, Parinacota Looking Due North across Lago Chungara—5 Days at 15,400', 2015

Tony Foster, Cerro Parinacota SW from a Ridge below Cerro Pomerape, 1997

Tony Foster, Atacama Desert—Valle de la Luna—Above Duna Grande Looking 50° NE, 2015

Tony Foster, 19/20 October 2015—Looking NW to Cerro Negro, 2015

Tony Foster, 21/22 October—Pacific Coast / Bahia Comache Looking SSE, 2015

Tony Foster, 22/23 October—Looking West from Punta Sarmenia, 2015

Tony Foster, 25 & 31 October—A Stream in the Desert, Putre, 2015

Tony Foster, 4 November—Licancabur from across the Valle de la Luna, 2015

Tony Foster, 7 November—The Night Sky from ALMA, 2015

Tony Foster, Denali and Wonder Lake Looking South from Ansel Adams Point, 2014

Tony Foster, From Homer Looking across the Cook Inlet to Halibut Cove, 2014

Tony Foster, Mont Blanc from above Bel Aire, 2012

Tony Foster, Twenty-Three Days Painting the Canyon—From West of Navajo Point, 2013

Tony Foster, From West of Navajo Point Looking West, 2013

Tony Foster, Seven Days Rafting the Colorado River—“No one ever steps into the same river twice” (Heraclitus 500 BC), 2014

Tony Foster, Camp 2—Mile 47.8—Looking Upriver, 2014

Tony Foster, Camp 3—Mile 72—Looking Upriver, 2014

Tony Foster, Camp 4—Mile 96.5—Looking Upriver, 2014

Tony Foster, Camp 5—Mile 122—Looking Downriver, 2014

Tony Foster, Camp 6—Mile 136 1/2—Looking Downriver, 2014

Tony Foster, Looking Out from Deer Cave, Mulu—Six Days, 2015

Tony Foster, The Stream from Clearwater Cave, Mulu, 2015

Tony Foster, From near Paku Falls Looking South—5 Days, 2015

Tony Foster, Near Paku Falls Looking 20° NNE, 2015

Tony Foster, Vilamendhoo—Dive 20, 2004

Tony Foster, Dive 132 Little Cayman, 2013

Tony Foster, Dive 106—Vilamendhoo, 2007

Tony Foster, Vilamendhoo—South Ari Atoll Looking West, 2007

Tony Foster, Vilamendhoo—South Ari Atoll—Looking West, 2007

Tony Foster, Velidhoo—North Ari Atoll—Looking West, 2009

Tony Foster, Vilamendhoo—South Ari Atoll—Looking West, 2010

Tony Foster, Ilulissat from 400' above Our Camp at Kingigtoq Looking 220° True SW across the Kangia, 2001

Tony Foster, The East (Kangshung) Face of Everest from above the Kama Valley, 2007

Tony Foster, An Unnamed Rockface Looking West from My Tent above the Kama Valley, 2007

Tony Foster, Looking 70° ENE to Machapuchare from a Hill 400' above Tadapani, 2014

Tony Foster, Machapuchare 1—Looking North from Thulkara, 2014

Tony Foster, Machapuchare 2—Modi Kola River Looking North, 2014

Tony Foster, Machapuchare 3—Looking S.S.E. from Annapurna Basecamp, 2014

Tony Foster, Fall Colour in Great Meadow, Concord, 2012

Tony Foster, Day 1/2—From below Harksdale Farm Looking WSW, 2012

Tony Foster, Day 2/3—From Underhill Camp Looking SW, 2012

Tony Foster, Day 4/5—From Roaring Brook Looking NNE, 2012

Tony Foster, Wistman’s Wood Looking SSW, 2013

Tony Foster, Bluebells—Looking WNW near the Top of Luxulyan Valley, 2015

Tony Foster, Tywardreath Marsh—Observations, 2009

Tony Foster, Three Ways to Describe Plantlife / Three Wildlife Observations—Tywardreath Marsh Looking South, 2015

Tony Foster, Luxulyan Valley Hedge, 2015

Tony Foster, Looking West from Pencarrow Head, 2016

Tony Foster, Looking East from Coombe, 2016

Painting locations

Tony travelled the world to capture the beautiful landscapes for Exploring Beauty.

Borneo
Cayman Islands
Chile
France
Greenland
Maldives
Nepal
Tibet
United Kingdom
- Cornwall
- Devon
United States
- Alaska
- Arizona
- Massachusetts
- New Hampshire
- Vermont

Exhibition Catalogue

This catalogue contains detailed information about and reproductions of the 52 artworks included in the Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild exhibit, Tony Foster's 16th Journey, currently on view at The Foster in Palo Alto, CA.

Download a PDF of the softcover exhibition catalogue or purchase one in our Shop.

Past Exhibitions

2016–present

Royal Watercolour Society, Bankside Gallery, London
Royal Cornwall Museum, Truro, England
The Foster, Palo Alto, California (ongoing)

Audio Tour

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Related Videos

TONY FOSTER Creating ART Underwater

Artist and avid diver Tony Foster explains the process he devised for capturing what he sees underwater. This technique allowed him to create watercolor paintings of coral reefs in the Cayman Islands and the Maldives.

Exploring Beauty: Watercolour Diaries from the Wild, Led by Artist-Explorer Tony Foster

Artist-Explorer Tony Foster explains why he embarked on his 16th Journey, which encompasses eleven trips to sixteen different locations around the world and spans ten years, from 2007-2016. Tony acknowledges the luminaries who directed him to each beautiful painting site as he relates his experiences and comments on his artworks in this exhibition.

Excerpts from a film by Bruno Peyronnet

In 2012, Eliocom, a French film production company, invited Tony Foster and three other artists to paint in the Alps for a 60-minute documentary. Foster chose a location with a dramatic view of Mont Blanc and spent a week working on-site.

The Man Who Painted Everest

In 2005, artist-explorer Tony Foster traveled to Nepal in order to make paintings of the world's tallest mountain: Everest. This documentary explores the artist's methods and process as he endures harsh conditions to produce breathtaking watercolor works. The resulting exhibit from this effort, a Journey called Searching for a Bigger Subject, juxtaposes the grandeur of the Himalayas against the vastness of the Grand Canyon in the USA.