"Drawing is key to Tony Bream's art, giving strength to his impressionistic watercolours and paintings as well as to the work in charcoal. His views of Petra are particularly impressive, and in one of them, the crags above the Bab-es-Siq, he takes on two illustrious predecessors, Bomberg and Roberts - and wins. Where Roberts elongates for picturesque appeal, and Bomberg loses structure in colouring, Bream gives us the power of looming desert rocks. Some of the Jerusalem watercolours make a respectful nod to Sargent, others invoke H. B. Brabazon, that most professional amateur, but whatever the heritage he absorbs, they are quintessential Bream."
Huon Mallalieu, art critic
Exhibitions and travels:
2024 REDROCK GALLERY - Faversham, April - 'Brief Encounters'
2023 BEANEY HOUSE OF ART & KNOWLEDGE - Canterbury, December 2023 - February 2024 - 'Storytellers' - Group exhibition
OYSTER BAY HOUSE - Faversham, September - 'Low Tide'
April - Painting in Gascony
2022 Painting large figure interiors
August - Painting in southern France
May - Painting in Tuscany
2021 OYSTER BAY HOUSE - Faversham, November - December - 'Recent Work'
2020 REDROCK GALLERY, Faversham, October - 'Kent Coast'
INDAR PASRICHA FINE ARTS, London, August - September - 'The Enchantment of Gardens'
2019 ROYAL SOCIETY OF PORTRAIT PAINTERS, London, May
2018 MONCRIEFF-BRAY GALLERY, Petworth, May - June - Summer Exhibition
2017 August - Painting in Brittany
May - Painting in Tuscany
March - Painting in Fez and Meknes
2016 PIERS FEETHAM GALLERY, Fulham Road, London, November 21st - 26th
August - September - Painting in Segovia and Galicia
March - Painting in Morocco
Painting portraits and interiors at the Savile Club, London
2015 August - Painting in Normandy
OSBORNE STUDIO GALLERY, Motcomb Street, London, March - Venice in Peril
Painting still-life interiors for Cricket Fine Art.
ALEXANDER CENTRE, Town Hall, Faversham, January - June - Kent landscapes
2014 August - Painting in Cadiz and Seville
March - April - Painting in Rome and Venice
FINE ART COMMISSIONS, Duke Street, St James's, London
January - Portrait representative
2013 September - Painting on North Haven Island, Maine
August - Painting in the forest of Fontainebleau, France
DAGGET GALLERY , Kensington Church Street, London, June - 'Antony Bream - A Perspective'; solo exhibition
May - Painting in Jordan and Israel
2012 August - Painting in Andalucia, Spain
April - May - Painting in Venice
March - April - Painting and teaching in Aubais, France
2011 CREEK CREATIVE, Faversham, Kent
September - 'Faversham and Beyond' - Oils and drawings; solo exhibition
CRICKET FINE ART, Park Walk, London,
August - Summer Exhibition - 'Interiors' - group exhibition
April - Painting at Highclere Castle
2010 OSBORNE STUDIO GALLERY, Motcomb Street, London, October - 'A good Vintage' - group exhibition
ABBOTT & HOLDER, Museum Street, London
June - 'Sunshine and Shadow' - Forty watercolours of North Africa, India, Kenya, France, Italy & England; solo exhibition
OSBORNE STUDIO GALLERY, Motcomb Street, London, May - 'Flora' - Group exhibition: garden
OAKHAM CONTEMPORARY GALLERY, Bury Street, London, March - group exhibition: large still lifes
2009 CRICKET FINE ART, Langton Street, London, May - Exhibition of nudes: group show
2008 FROST & REED, King Street, St James's, London, May - June - 'Seeing and Believing' 200th Anniversary Exhibition group show
2007 PETLEY FINE ART, Royal Arcade, London, June - 'The Artist as Traveller' - exhibition of oils, watercolours and drawings; solo exhibition
PETLEY FINE ART - Cork Street, London
February - Group show, drawings
2005 RAFAEL VALLS - Ryder Street, St James's, London, June - 'Recent Works', Oils and watercolours; solo exhibition
2002 INDAR PASRICHA - Connaught Street, London, April - 'An Indian Journey'; solo exhibition
THE ARNDEANE GALLERY - Cork Street, London, March - April - Mixed Show - Portraits and Landscapes
1999 DAVID MESSUM GALLERY - Cork Street, London, December 'New Paintings'; solo exhibition
1998 DAVID MESSUM GALLERY - Duke Street, St James's, London, June - 'Venice' - Watercolours; solo exhibition
1997 JONATHAN COOPER GALLERY - Park Walk, London, June - Oils and watercolours; solo exhibition
1995 HARARI & JOHNS - Duke Street, St James's, London, June - 'Paintings of Corfu' - Oils and watercolours; solo exhibition
1994 DAVID MESSUM GALLERY - Cork Street, London, April - Opening Exhibition - 'Watercolours of Tunisia'; solo exhibition
1993 ST JAMES'S ART GROUP - Jermyn Street, London, December; solo exhibition
ST JAMES'S ART GROUP - Jermyn Street, London, June - Portraits