Tony Whieldon is the traditional artist. He has been drawing, painting and fishing since he was a boy. His passion for angling and art has made him one of the worlds most revered fish artists and an authority on both subjects of fishing and painting. He has written and illustrated several books on fishing and has produced articles, illustrations and cartoons for angling books and magazines. Much of his art is as yet unseen - a collection of fish and English landscape oil paintings, watercolour, pen and ink, graphite pencil and charcoal works.

The ploughed red Devon fields, ancient hedgerows, old farm buildings, voluminous trees and cloud laden skies of Tony's work is reminiscent of the work of the old masters. His paintings, whether fish, landscape, portrait or still life, are all imbued with life: the vital essence of the subject. Tony meditates on the correct combination of colour, tone and composition, thus succeeding in capturing the true spirit of his one passion that is the English countryside and it's aquatic inhabitants.

Tony's latest book, 'The Complete Guide to Fishing Skills' -

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published by Cassell paperbacks, is out now!

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'Better Pole Fishing'- Tony Whieldon and Dave Coster [Drennan]

'Coarse Fishing Year' [Hamlyn]

'The Bent Pin', an anthology of fishing poems [Rigby& Lewis]

'Fishing Forever' - David Churchill [Merlin Unwin books]

'Fishing Personally' - W.M. Hill [A & C Black]

Angler's Mail [IPC Magazines]