Artist — Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand

Tony
West

The hand behind the idea.

Linocut relief, silverpoint, large-format acrylic, caricature — everything here started as a thought, not a prompt.

Original work — struck by hand, not generated
01 — Brush
Selected work

Four mediums, one hand. Each has its own way of thinking through a problem.

Linocut

Hand-carved relief blocks, hand-inked, hand-pulled. Small editions, numbered.

36 pieces

Silverpoint

Metalpoint on prepared ground — a line that can't be erased, only lived with.

19 pieces

Painting

Large-format acrylic. The Thai coast, in the hour the light won't hold still.

24 pieces

Caricature

Fast, exaggerated, affectionate. The line finds the likeness before I do.

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“Everything here started as a thought, not a prompt.”

I've worked across linocut relief printing, silverpoint drawing, large-format acrylic painting and caricature for the better part of my life, most of it now from a studio in Ubon Ratchathani, Thailand. Different tools, same habit of mind: an idea has to earn its way onto the block or the paper before I'll touch a blade or a brush to it.

Everything shown here is an original, made by hand, start to finish — carved, drawn or painted the slow way, on purpose. Nothing on this site has ever been generated.

Also — I write

Crazy Artist: The Cost of Becoming Yourself

Published under West Art Press. Available in print and as an audiobook.

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Journal

Notes from the studio.

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