Birthplace: Lancashire
Location: Cumbria
Art Medium: Oils
Education:
Burnley Art School
Swansea College of Art
Swansea University
Godfrey is a full time painter having exhibited in the Medici Gallery, London, for many years. His works can be seen in many countries around the world. His earlier output was mainly in mixed media and pastels, but he has since worked mainly in oils. He is now located in eastern Cumbria and his work focuses on the beautiful fells that he calls home.
From time to time, GT’s earlier paintings can be seen listed at both Christies or Philips auction houses. These are typically European landscapes in oil pastel.
Godfrey is related to Professor Henry Tonks, who was an official war artist, tutor and later in his career, took up the appointment to become the Slade professor of Fine Art, a man famous today for his intimate portraits of the gas attack victims in WWI, his career as a surgeon having gifted him with a deep knowledge of human anatomy.
Awards and Honourable Mentions:
First prize winner Laing Landscape Competition, 1992
Winner of Patchings Award, 1992
John Herring Award at Pastel Society Mall Gallerries, 1993
Judge of the Montpellier Painting Prize, 1993
First prize winner, Cumbrian Artist Open Competition, 2002
Judge of Cumbria Artist Open Competition, 2004
Second prize winner, Cumbrian Artist Open Competition, 2005
Solo Exhibitions:
Medici Gallery, London, 1994 - 2004
Walker Gallery, Harrogate, 1994 - 1995
Llewellyn Alexander Gallery, London, 1996 - 2000
Neville Gallery, Canterbury 2002
Highgate Fine Art, London 2007