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Tonia Sanft is an Australian artist based in Melbourne. She paints a variety of genres and styles from colourful seascapes and landscapes to contemporary, female, linear nudes and abstracts.

“I am constantly amazed by the sheer beauty of nature, the play of light and its extraordinary colour and movement.

“The French and Australian Impressionist painters and their use of bright and vibrant colour to capture the moods of weather and its impact on the scene, have influenced me greatly.”

The richness I achieve comes from nature, the source of my inspiration.

Claude Monet

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Seagull Calm
Seagull Calm
A$1,790.00

94.5 X 79.5 X 5.5 CM

Original acrylic on canvas

FRAMED

Tonia is inspired by the beauty of nature and the changing moods and colours of the weather. Seagull Calm captures this glorious scene of seagulls standing in the shoreline shallows, and their refections, at low tide. Soft clouds can be seen building on the horizon. Tonia wants the viewer to feel cool and calm by this painting.

Shades of blues, turquoise, and white acrylic paint has been applied with brushes. The painting is on cotton canvas and is finished and protected with two coast of satin varnish. It has a quality white timber external floating frame and a wire across the back, ready to hang.

The dimensions above is the framed size.

Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

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Please contact Tonia if you have any queries or live outside Australia

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Seagulls and Reflections
Seagulls and Reflections
A$1,490.00

64 X 64 X 5.5 CM

Original acrylic on canvas

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Soft pale blues, greens and white acrylic give a sense of calm to this original painting. Several people are peacefully standing in the shallow waters, sharing the idyllic day with numerous seagulls. Their reflections feature in the foreground and add to the stillness. Tonia found inspiration for this beautiful scene whilst walking bayside on the Mornington Peninsula and recreated it to give the viewer a sense of calm and thoughts of tranquil days at the beach .

The artwork is acrylic paint on premium cotton canvas stretched onto an internal frame. An external, white timber floating frame has been added, with wire across the back, ready to hang. The painting is finished with two coats of satin varnish.

The dimensions above is the framed size.

All Tonia’s artworks come with a Certificate of Authenticity

*FREE shipping within Australia*

Please contact Tonia if you have any queries or live outside Australia

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Bayside Dreaming
Bayside Dreaming
A$0.00

80 X 80 X 5.5 CM

Original acrylic on canvas

FRAMED

Tonia's love of the ocean, it's moods and colours, and people having fun at the beach inspired her to paint this artwork. In particular, this typical Australian summer's day by the Bay on the Mornington Peninsula boasts its colourful bathing boxes. It's a beautiful calm day with people and colourful beach umbrellas. Wendy, Tonia's fictional person (Where's Wendy), who is in many of her paintings, is also at the beach in her red bikini.

The artwork is intended to give the viewer happy thoughts of summer and beautiful days at the beach and feel as if they are at this special place. The cool blues and turquoise greens are typical of many of Tonia's seascapes.

Acrylic paint applied with texture with brush and palette knife and finished with two coats of satin varnish. The painting has a quality white timber floating framed and has wire across the back ready to hang. All Tonia's paintings come with a Certificate of Authenticity.

Accompanied by a Certificate of Authenticity.

*Free shipping within Australia*

Please contact Tonia if you have any queries or live outside Australia

Read more →

Art Commissions

You may like to commission Tonia to create something unique for you. Below are a few of her recent commissions. Take a look at Commissions & Gallery page for further information or Contact Tonia

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Tonia awarded a Highly Commended prize at the 2022 Sorrento Art Show for her painting, “Take Me to the Sea”.

Through colour and vitality, the painting captures the spectacular beauty and wildness of the back beach of Sorrento on the Mornington Peninsula, Victoria. The aerial scene, as the weather is changing, is the view from the top of wooden steps where a solitary girl descends, through the tea trees, to the beach. Her name is Wendy, a fictitious character, who often appears in Tonia’s paintings with the catch tag of “Where’s Wendy?”