Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist Nigel Slater uncovering moments of grace in

uncovering moments of grace in the Laundromats and halfway houses of the American Southwest

engaging the eye with a volcanic profusion of penned-and-painted imagery” (New York Times)

She's going through all the same things most teenage girls have to face

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Tony Fomison: Life of the Artist Nigel Slater uncovering moments of grace inAs a boy Tony had drawn maps and diagrams and medieval battle scenes. Hed read fairy tales and been enchanted by local sites of Maori history. As a young man he was a vagrant on the streets of Paris, was twice imprisoned, spent time in a mental hospital, battled destructive addictions, and experienced unrequited love and loneliness. All of this would become the underworld of his art, the subterranean realm where he could dwell so as to create work