Lot 381: * Goffe (Toni, 20th c.). "Green Hill", acrylic on

* Goffe (Toni, 20th c.). "Green Hill", acrylic on canvas, of a brightly-coloured landscape with fields and houses, signed lower left, 40 x 61cm (15.75 x 24ins). Toni Goffe studied painting and illustration at Southampton College of Art in Hampshire between 1952 and 1956. On completing the course, he moved to London where he freelanced as an illustrator and studied painting with a number of private tutors. In 1960, Toni married and moved back to Hampshire where he started The Pendulum Gallery in Selborne, exhibiting his own oil paintings, watercolours, gouaches and pastels, as well as those of other local artists. In 1982, he moved to Boston, USA, to direct The John Stobart Gallery. He exhibited in numerous galleries along the East Coast of America between 1982 and 1985. Toni returned to Hampshire in England with his family in 1985, continuing to work freelance as an illustrator and painter, and holding exhibitions both in the UK and Ireland. Toni received formal recognition for his work in 1993 when he received the Gold Medallion Book Award for his illustrations for the children's book, 'Just In Case You Ever Wonder'. (1)
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