{"id":437919,"date":"2026-05-21T06:27:08","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:27:08","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437919\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T06:27:08","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T06:27:08","slug":"it-keeps-me-in-touch-with-life-the-london-artist-still-working-at-103","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/437919\/","title":{"rendered":"&#8216;It keeps me in touch with life&#8217;: The London artist still working at 103"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Some might think that your average centenarian would be content to sit back and take it easy after a long life. <\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">But not south London painter Anthony Eyton.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He may have turned 103 last weekend, but he is busy preparing for this year&#8217;s Royal Academy Summer Exhibition &#8211; the world&#8217;s oldest open submission exhibition.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">Eyton, from Brixton, has seen his work exhibited all over the world, including at Tate Modern, Tate Britain and the Imperial War Museum.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">He says creating paintings gives him satisfaction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"ssrcss-1q0x1qg-Paragraph e1jhz7w10\">&#8220;It&#8217;s what I do, I&#8217;m never happier than when I&#8217;m putting paint on&#8230; it&#8217;s the only thing I can do and it keeps me in touch with life,&#8221; he says.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Some might think that your average centenarian would be content to sit back and take it easy after&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":437920,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[442,498,499,500,501,156,111,139,69],"class_list":["post-437919","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-design","tag-entertainment","tag-new-zealand","tag-newzealand","tag-nz"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437919","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=437919"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/437919\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/437920"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=437919"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=437919"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/nz\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=437919"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}