My name is Tony Alan Warren. I was born in Düsseldorf, Germany, in 1961. My father is American and my mother Swedish. I grew up in Sweden but have travelled and lived in many parts of the world, including Asia, the USA, and Europe. I feel that I have gained a considerable understanding of humanity through direct contact with other cultures. In a way, one thinks about experiences differently depending on where-in what country or culture-they took place; but I process these experiences into a kind of unified coherent perception.

As a portrait painter I see these experiences as a unique advantage in my efforts to achieve better results. I have developed my skills through years of self-study and have both learned from and been inspired by other artists, including the great masters. For four years I studied at the School of Representational Art in Chicago. This is one of the world´s foremost art schools, with a French-academic orientation. I will always see myself as a student of painting even though my ambition, without question, is to establish myself as one of the world´s foremost portrait painters. One of my ancestors was a Sioux Indian. I think that this genetic connection comes through in my artwork. My art aims to tell a timeless story. It can be about adventure, romance, sorrow, happiness, and all the other conditions of life. I put a lot of effort into incorporating an invisible theme that the viewer himself can read into the painting. When I paint I stay rooted to the earth and don´t want my personal thoughts to have any effect whatever on my work. That is the realm of the earth spirits. In this I think my Sioux Indian genes are expressing themselves. Our world is ordered along mechanistic lines, and that is why I paint in the classical tradition. Classical painting also has a mechanistic structure and that is where the connection is. By this I am not saying that my painting is solely mechanical; the dimensions of emotion and of the abstract are there under the surface. For the end product to work as a unified whole, both of these worlds must be mutually supportive. I see this dialectic as a well that will never run dry and from it I get my inspiration. I believe it is through this framework of thinking that I have achieved wholeness in my work. I paint portraits, still lifes, and landscapes. Exhibits • Chicago, School of Representational Art, June 1996 • Bunges kapell, Åmotsbruk, Sweden, June 1997 • Ockelbo Library, Sweden, June 1997 • New York, Gallery 54, September 1997 • Galerie Morgan Gummeson´s, Stockholm, Sweden 1998. • Officerstorpet, Ockelbo, Sweden 2001. • Wij Säteri, Ockelbo, Sweden 2001. - HOME - THE ARTIST - GALLERY - INFORMATION - .