ANTHONY EYTON RA (1923) has travelled extensively, particularly to India, Israel and Sudan. 1982 was commissioned by the Artistic Records Committee to observe and paint the Gurkha regiment in Hong Kong and the New Territories, these paintings were exhibited at the Imperial War Museum. A retrospective of his work held at the South London Art Gallery in 1980, subsequently toured. Invited by the Tate Gallery to work in the Bankside Power Station prior to it becoming Tate Modern, two pictures subsequently entered the Tate Collection. Since 1999 he has been Resident Artist at the Eden Project in Cornwall.