Tony Giles's paintings were inspired by the way man has shaped the Cornish landscape. He painted railway tracks and viaducts, clay workings and mine buildings, harbours and chapels in a very lively, highly individual style.

'Whether looking at the convoluted harbour of Porthleven, the standing stones of prehistory, the black tin coast or a branch line disappearing into the belly of the china clay country, he does so with an understanding of and sympathy for Cornwall that is total,' wrote Frank Ruhrniund, concluding that Tony Giles was 'one of Cornwall's most powerful and prolific, and strange as it may seem, still most under-rated artists.'

Port holland

Oil on board

235 x 330 mm

© Hilary Giles

Bosigran from Pendeen

Watercolour and ink

370 x 540 mm

© Hilary Giles

Drinking at the

Railway Inn

St Agnes

© Hilary Giles

Morvah

Watercolour

290 x 390 mm

1992

© Hilary Giles