Anthony Barton Goble, artist and teacher, was born in Montgomeryshire in 1943. He became Artist-in-Residence at Llanover Hall Art Centre, Cardiff and went on to become Gallery Director. He died in 2007.
Tony Goble might be termed a magical realist: his subjects were his own life and everyday surroundings transformed by free association into other-worldly narratives. He plucked imagery from many sources, capturing birds, boats, medieval sculptures and Coptic icons to place alongside his own pictorial persona. His vitality of form and vividness of colour were seductive, and his worlds were persuasive, yet his mysterious images remained richly open to interpretation. 'Painting,' he said, 'is somewhere between seeing and believing; somewhere between dreams and the wake-a-day world.'