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While studying Modern History at Oxford Ant Tyler attended the Ruskin School of Art as an extra-mural student. He continued his extra-mural studies at St.Martin’s and the Chelsea School of Art, where he was privileged to have, as a model or ‘naked civil servant’ the celebrated Quentin Crisp, and as a tutor the enthusiastic future Turner scholar Eric Shanes. Mr.Crisp, as he was known,had just encountered the actor John Hurt who would play him in the film of The Naked Civil Servant and re-marked that it had been like “looking in the mirror”. After the academic rigour of life drawing and painting Tyler branched out to his favoured subject, landscape and the odd interior. For the last few decades he has worked in France, Spain and England, attempting to follow in the footsteps of the British Impressionists but leaning increasingly towards a more abstract style. At the same time he has executed numerous portraits of houses, mainly in watercolour, and still carries out commissions for these.

Tyler has had solo exhibitions in Petworth and Bath and participated in the Young British Artists ex-hibitions at the Mall Galleries. His work was accepted for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in 1975. His paintings are in private collections in Europe, the United Kingdom and the United States.