About The Artist

              Mostly I do landscapes and abstracts. I work in color
        with the landscapes but not with the abstracts. I do them
        in monotones. I respond to the beauty of nature pretty well,
        but I always get this gut feeling that I want to make the landscape
        more and more abstract.
           The abstracts I am more or less comfortable with.
        In them I like to combine geometric shapes with figurative ones
        and the product that comes out pleases me.
       Tonnar applying oil paint to panel 




              Artist Statement   2012
                     I reside in Carrollton, Missouri. I work at my art in my spare time,
                     whenever I am not working at my other job.
    
                     In 1981 I earned my BFA from Massart and have lived in Carrollton,
                     Missouri the past forty years.
 

               Artist Resume

                   Education

               1964-1966 Corcoran School of Art, Washington, D.C
               1966-1967 Pennsylvania Academy of Art, Philadelphia, PA
             1977-1981 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA (Massart)

             Awards

               1975 Honorable Mention Award, Arkansas Art Center, Little Rock, AR
               1963 Golden Key Award, Carrollton High School, Carrollton, MO


                Scholarships

               1965 Ford Roundation Scholarship, Corcoran School of Art, Boston, MA
               1966 Full Tuition Scholarship, Pennsylvania Academy
               1978-1981 Part Tuition Scholarship, Massart, Boston, MA

                Solo Exhibition
   
               2010 Unitarian Church Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO
               2008 Speaker for Art Talk series, Carrollton Public Library, Carrollton, MO
                         Moberly Area Community College, Moberly, MO
               1980 Massachusetts College of Art, Boston, MA
               1976 Unitarian Church Art Gallery, Kansas City, MO

               Group Exhibit

               2011 Carrollton Artists, North Missouri Art Gallery, Marceline, MO
               2010 Carrollton Artists, North Missouri Art Gallery, Marceline, MO
               2008  Premier Eye Care, 1409 North Jefferson, Carrollton, MO
                        The Late Show, Kansas City, MO
               1999 September Show, Carrollton Artists, 5 East Benton, Carrollton, MO
               1998 Beautiful Fire, Carrollton Artists, 5 East Benton, Carrollton, MO

                Collections

                Moberly Area Community College, Moberly, MO
                Charles & Anitra Steele
                Bob & Chris Sweeney
                Nancy Carpenter
                Karl Marxhausen
                Whitney Ramsey
                Cody Meyer
                John Franken
                Terry & Debbie Arnold

               

 
      My Favorite Artists
              Rembrandt                     Italian Renaissance painters
              JM Turner                      Goya
              Courbet                          Bonnard.....was the greatest
              Picasso                          Edward Hopper
              Pollack                           Van Gogh
              Diebenkorn                    De Koonig.....a little bit
              David Hockney              Kandinsky
 
             
                

      "You don't see painting anymore......
             it's all design and slick compared
             to the heart felt work that came before ."

                                                                                                
   
            
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