tony ogle
Born in 1959, Castor Bay, Auckland, New Zealand.
Tony began his art career in the early ‘80s after a brief stint in commercial advertising. He pursued his dream to work at becoming a fine artist and formed a partnership with a fellow artist setting up a screenprinting studio in Matapouri, north of Auckland. They began self learning the technique of screenprinting and were soon supplying prints to galleries in Auckland. The focus of these works was the Northland coastal landscape.
Tony returned to Auckland in 1984 and set up a working studio in Campbell’s Bay, on the North Shore of Auckland. He continued producing limited edition screenprints and paintings celebrating the New Zealand coastline.
The opportunity to sojourn overseas arrived in 1985 when he joined American friends sailing around the world. He joined the yacht in the Seychelles Islands and sailed to the tip of Africa. Cape Town captivated him and within a year he was back there and involved personally as well as artistically. He was a co-partner in an art, design and interiors shop for five years.
The insights over this time were very valuable artistically and commercially. With this newly-gained experience under his belt, he returned to New Zealand in 1991 keen to continue his creative endeavours.
Initially he supplied design objects to Auckland design stores before picking up where he had left off. He established a new painting and screenprinting studio near Devonport before moving to Takapuna Beach and the Lake House. (A historic Victorian boarding house now relocated in Takapuna as a functioning Arts Centre). Tony was very involved in the early stages of saving the house as a historic icon of Takapuna. In 1995 with 25 other artists, he organized the “End of an Era” exhibition held in the House to draw public attention to its significance and fate.
In the late ‘90s he continued his career based in Takapuna whilst working on plans for a house and studio project at Bethells Beach, on Auckland’s West Coast, where he took residence in 2000 and began creating many works of the inspirational West Coast. He continued supplying several galleries around New Zealand and contributing to group and solo exhibitions.
After nine years on the rugged West Coast, in 2009 a new chapter began along with his young family in the eastern region of Gisborne, in his new home and studio overlooking Wainui Beach; and nowadays whilst still living at Wainui Beach, Tony works from his studio in the heart of Gisborne.
Tony's work continues to express the vibrancy, colour and authenticity that he’s known for, only achieved by someone who is in touch, in synch and fully entrenched in the unique lifestyle that exists in his homeland.
Tony releases single edition productions, with each work being numbered and signed individually. Once the edition has sold out it is not repeated giving the artwork value over time.
Tony's fine art prints begin as a detailed painting on board from which each individual colour is then hand separated. These separations become the stencils on the screens through which each colour is printed (some Ogle prints have up to 25 individually printed colours). The printing process involves a careful alignment and registration and constant checking for quality problems. The colours of all Tony's prints are hand-mixed and give the image a very real handmade feel and quality.
Tony began his art career in the early ‘80s after a brief stint in commercial advertising. He pursued his dream to work at becoming a fine artist and formed a partnership with a fellow artist setting up a screenprinting studio in Matapouri, north of Auckland. They began self learning the technique of screenprinting and were soon supplying prints to galleries in Auckland. The focus of these works was the Northland coastal landscape.
Tony returned to Auckland in 1984 and set up a working studio in Campbell’s Bay, on the North Shore of Auckland. He continued producing limited edition screenprints and paintings celebrating the New Zealand coastline.
The opportunity to sojourn overseas arrived in 1985 when he joined American friends sailing around the world. He joined the yacht in the Seychelles Islands and sailed to the tip of Africa. Cape Town captivated him and within a year he was back there and involved personally as well as artistically. He was a co-partner in an art, design and interiors shop for five years.
The insights over this time were very valuable artistically and commercially. With this newly-gained experience under his belt, he returned to New Zealand in 1991 keen to continue his creative endeavours.
Initially he supplied design objects to Auckland design stores before picking up where he had left off. He established a new painting and screenprinting studio near Devonport before moving to Takapuna Beach and the Lake House. (A historic Victorian boarding house now relocated in Takapuna as a functioning Arts Centre). Tony was very involved in the early stages of saving the house as a historic icon of Takapuna. In 1995 with 25 other artists, he organized the “End of an Era” exhibition held in the House to draw public attention to its significance and fate.
In the late ‘90s he continued his career based in Takapuna whilst working on plans for a house and studio project at Bethells Beach, on Auckland’s West Coast, where he took residence in 2000 and began creating many works of the inspirational West Coast. He continued supplying several galleries around New Zealand and contributing to group and solo exhibitions.
After nine years on the rugged West Coast, in 2009 a new chapter began along with his young family in the eastern region of Gisborne, in his new home and studio overlooking Wainui Beach; and nowadays whilst still living at Wainui Beach, Tony works from his studio in the heart of Gisborne.
Tony's work continues to express the vibrancy, colour and authenticity that he’s known for, only achieved by someone who is in touch, in synch and fully entrenched in the unique lifestyle that exists in his homeland.
Tony releases single edition productions, with each work being numbered and signed individually. Once the edition has sold out it is not repeated giving the artwork value over time.
Tony's fine art prints begin as a detailed painting on board from which each individual colour is then hand separated. These separations become the stencils on the screens through which each colour is printed (some Ogle prints have up to 25 individually printed colours). The printing process involves a careful alignment and registration and constant checking for quality problems. The colours of all Tony's prints are hand-mixed and give the image a very real handmade feel and quality.