Anthony Ackrill

“My formal education as a painter began at the Florence Academy of Art in Florence, Italy. I studied there for five years and was also an instructor for four of those years, teaching anatomy, drawing, and painting. The focus of the curriculum was a strict academic approach to painting and drawing based largely on the principles of art as taught in the painting academies of Europe in the 19th century. In this system, the pupil studies with a master until the student has become a master as well. Often the pupil then becomes a teacher, passing on a continuous body of knowledge, generation after generation, always with a strict adherence to observing nature and painting directly from life while focusing on the human figure.”

– Anthony Ackrill