Tony is a self taught artist and the ability to paint and sculpt came as a complete surprise to him. Tony says that, "I began dabbling with my 7 year old daughter's play paints so my wife bought me a painting set for Christmas. I found that I could paint without the need for any lessons, an uncanny feeling. For 20 years I have been on a journey to explore art and have sold many paintings and fish sculptures, mostly inspired by my love of the ocean". ​Tony is originally from Newcastle, England and has been an avid fisherman all his life. "One of my fondest memories was when I was 10 and went night fishing with my Dad Jim on a beach in England, with a roaring fire to keep warm and we pulled in huge fighting cod". ​Tony moved to Sarasota 9 years ago and began scuba diving and has done over 50 dives in the last two years, searching for sharks teeth off Venice, FL and diving with reef and nurse sharks in the Bahamas.