Tony Foster (artist)

Tony Foster
Tony Foster painting Mount Everest, 2005
Born
Richard Anthony Foster

(1946-04-02)2 April 1946
NationalityBritish
Known forArtist-explorer, Landscape art Watercolor painting
SpouseAnn (Partington) Foster
Awards1994 Elected Fellow of the Royal Geographical Society, 2002 Cherry Kearton Medal and Award
Websitetony-foster.co.uk

Richard Anthony Foster (born 2 April 1946), known as Tony Foster, is a British artist-explorer and environmentalist who documents wilderness landscapes worldwide through his large-scale artworks created on-site. The artworks are watercolour and graphite on paper and include diary excerpts, collected souvenirs, maps, and talismans. Since 1982, Foster has completed nineteen thematically related watercolour diaries or Journeys.