Born in 1939 in Edinburgh, Tony Valentine graduated from the Edinburgh and Glasgow Schools of Fine Arts, moved to France in 1968, and is now living and working in Maintenon. Strongly influenced by Samuel Beckett, his large oil paintings on wood, drawings on paper, and wooden sculptures feature the all-encompassing female figure of Alice in Wonderland and the contemplative ladscapes with Scottish volcanoes of his childhood, in a mix of obsession, desperation and humour.