Antonio was born in Nairobi, Kenya, in 1942 the third generation of a Goan family of writers and artists. First a painter, but also architectural and urban designer and paper maker, he is a multi-faceted artist worked with architecture, urban designing and paper making. His unique style includes a painterly mark-making process of playing with textures of various materials. He creates motifs and designs which are articulated through the manipulation of mixed media, unravelling a world of forms and textures. He is a Canadian citizen, living in India for many years now and speaks many languages. Travelling extensively, he has participated in workshops, been commissioned to plan towns, to create murals and has shown widely in solo and group shows in all parts of the world. His works have gradually gained an emotional charge that exceeded the formal confines that framed it.

Antonio says “The four canvases for this show – THE SHAMAN, LANDSCAPE WITH SYMBOLS, ABACUS and FLORAL SKY – are abstract renditions of landscapes transformed – for good or ill – by man. They constitute a continuing thread of worlds visited and emotions recaptured after the event in the tranquility of my studio. I often think that a workspace that is intensely used glows with invisible energy, so that the air seems as full of portents as dustmotes. I hope some of this has been transmuted onto these canvases for the pleasure of the viewer.

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