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TONY COSTA

In the studio I like to invert the painting so that it changes my reading of the image, so the focus of the subject becomes less important. Ultimately what matters is the unity and the invention. I do this irrespective of whether I paint a landscape or a portrait.

always been my obsession as a painter. It is the life force and the

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