Birthplace: Lancashire
Location: Cumbria
Art Medium: Oils
Education:

• Burnley Art School

• Swansea College of Art

• Swansea University

Godfrey is a full time painter having exhibited in the Medici Gallery, London, for many years. His works can be seen in many countries around the world. His earlier output was mainly in mixed media and pastels, but he has since worked mainly in oils. He is now located in eastern Cumbria and his work focuses on the beautiful fells that he calls home.

From time to time, GT’s earlier paintings can be seen listed at both Christies or Philips auction houses. These are typically European landscapes in oil pastel.

Godfrey is related to Professor Henry Tonks, who was an official war artist, tutor and later in his career, took up the appointment to become the Slade professor of Fine Art, a man famous today for his intimate portraits of the gas attack victims in WWI, his career as a surgeon having gifted him with a deep knowledge of human anatomy.

Awards and Honourable Mentions:

• First prize winner Laing Landscape Competition, 1992

• Winner of Patchings Award, 1992

• John Herring Award at Pastel Society Mall Gallerries, 1993

• Judge of the Montpellier Painting Prize, 1993

• First prize winner, Cumbrian Artist Open Competition, 2002

• Judge of Cumbria Artist Open Competition, 2004

• Second prize winner, Cumbrian Artist Open Competition, 2005

Solo Exhibitions:

• Medici Gallery, London, 1994 - 2004

• Walker Gallery, Harrogate, 1994 - 1995

• Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London, 1996 - 2000

• Neville Gallery, Canterbury 2002

• Highgate Fine Art, London 2007

Work Represented by NLG:

Paintings: Godfrey Tonks