With a wide variety of career experiences behind him Tony is often called upon to act as a juror, panelist, lecturer or demonstration artist. He has been a panelist for the Government funded Visual Arts Ontario and has taught historical techniques in courses for University of Toronto faculty of Fine Art. In 2006 he was asked to teach a watercolour painting course for the Royal Ontario Museum.

Tony’s irreverent humour has made him a popular demonstrating artist and he has been one of the team of artists to instruct at the National Watercolour Symposiums in Gananoque, Ontario (1995), Bowen Island, British Columbia (1998) and Calgary, Alberta, (2006). He has been the featured artist at a number of workshops in Halifax, Montreal, Sarnia, Ottawa, Toronto and Newfoundland.

His areas of expertise include composing a picture, basic perspective and other drawing problems, bringing the human figure into compositions to create scale and the important process of planning the lighting of a subject.