Toni Onley
Toni Onley was born in 1928 on the Isle of Man, where he received his early training and was influenced by the work of the great British watercolorists.He came to Canada in 1948.
After moving to British Columbia in 1955, he studied in Mexico, at the Instituto Allende, and in London, England, where he studied etching and re-established his landscape roots with the Norwich School of Watercolor Painting. His course was now set toward the work he is best known for today: landscape of simplicity and power.
Public collections of Toni Onley's work include those at the Tate Gallery and the Victoria and Albert Museum, London England; the National Gallery of Canada; the Seattle Art Museum; the Vancouver Art Gallery; the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C.; and the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria.
Mr. Onley was made an Officer of the Order of Canada, 1999. In 1999 he was also bestowed with an Honorary D. Litt. from Okanagan University College.
Toni was killed tragically on February 29, 2004 at the age of 75. He had been piloting his LA4 Buccaneer amphibious plane when it crashed into the Fraser River and became submerged.
Books:
A Silent Thunder.Prentice-Hall, 1981
Onley's Arctic.Douglasd McIntyre, 1991
The Walls of India.Onley/Woodcock, Lester & Orpen Dennys, 1985.
Toni Onley's British Columbia, A Tribute.Raincoast Books, 1999.
[photo: Yukiko Onley]
Browning Bay, North Pender Island, B.C.
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Mt. Baker across Boundary Pass, B.C.
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Chehalis Lake, B.C.
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Anthony Island
12 in x 16 in
serigraph
Wudang Mountain, Hubei Province, China
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Divided Landscape
11 in x 15 in
silkscreen on paper
Edition 2 of 9
Spirit Island, Pointe au Baril, Ontario
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Low Water, Silver River, Harrison Lake
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Franklin's Last Camp, Beechey Island
19.5 in x 23.5 in
oil on canvas
1974
The Lyons Over Burrard Inlet
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Rain Door Pass
20 in x 24 in
oil on linen
Quiet Inlet
20 in x 24 in
oil on panel
Phantom Glacier
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Black Island Harrison Lake
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Morning Mist, Lookout Island
19.5 in x 23.5 in
oil on canvas
1984
Old Steam Boat Channel
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Point au Basil
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Drift Logs, Harrison Lake
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Chain Islands, Ganges Harbour
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Khumtzeymateen River, B.C.
11 in x 14.5 in
watercolour
Cape Cranford, Borden Peninsula, Baffin Island
22 in x 30 in
watercolour
Garden at Trevaylor, Cornwall
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Stackhouse Cove, Cornwall
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Carfury Farm, Cornwall
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Hillside, Grenada, Spain
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Canal
11 in x 15 in
silkscreen on paper
Tokatsu Valley Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Fire Reflection, Fukurode, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Rain, Choyonuma, Kyushu, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Seifuso Ryokan, Kyushu, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Three Pines, Yamatsuri, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Fukuroda Ryokan, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Pine, Parsimmon, and Birds
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Four Pine Trees of Seifuso, Kyushu, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Tree at Fukurida, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Namas Fuji Ibaraki Prefecture, Japan.
11.75 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Neko Dake, Kyushu, Japan
12 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Nujubashi Gate and Moat, Imperial Palace
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Morning Shower, Mt. Fuji
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Misagisho Eastern Gate, Meiji Jingu Shrine, Tokyo
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Nujubashi Gate, Imperial Palace, Tokyo
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Asuka-ni-imasu Shrine, Asuka, Japan
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Tsurugi-no-ike, Asuka, Japan
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Bamboo, Tsurighi-no-ike, Asuka Japan
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Ishibutai Barrow, Asuka, Japan
11 in x 15 in
watercolour
Tiger Pagoda, Suzon, China
11.75 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Raining on the Left Bank of the Li River
11.75 in x 15.5 in
watercolour
Landscape of the Megaliths
19.5 in x 23.5 in
oil on canvas
1974
