Tony Rumball - Selected Works

For July 2025, ZIMMERMAN is delighted to present colourful new works on canvas by Tony Rumball. Acrylic ink – the medium used in these works, and known for its high fluidity and intense colours – perfectly complements the artist’s bold and expressive painting style. The energetic cast of characters in these latest works portray a range of personalities and pursuits, from the farmer in A Stocktake with his arms protectively widespread across his treasured jersey girls, to the Arty Fellow animatedly painting up a storm indoors. Dealing with Grapefruit shows a flame-haired lass busy at the kitchen bench, while A Very British Shrug features a bespectacled  Englishman engulfed in a flurry of flags. Instructions from Grandma and Match Point both take inspiration from cave paintings - the latter work reflecting Rumball's wariness of bulls (although his own bulls were "always hand-reared and friendly"). But the prize for pluckiness surely goes to the ladies in Moving but Mucky, as the determined duo perkily balance a pot-plant and puppy on their bicycle.

Work details

A Stocktake (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 510 x 610 mm Arty Fellow (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 610 x 510 mm Dealing with Grapefruit (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 760 x 510 mm A Very British Shrug (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 760 x 760 mm Instructions from Grandma (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 510 x 760 mm Match Point (2025), acrylic ink on canvas, 610 x 910 mm Moving but Mucky (2024), acrylic ink on canvas, 610 x 910 mm