Anthony Egan was a prolific and passionate painter encompassing different styles such as Surrealist, Abstract and Impressionist.

Born in Hampshire, Anthony studied at Ipswich Art School and went on to teach at Westbourne High School in Ipswich for the next 20 years where students described him as being a "gifted and inspiring" teacher. During this period of his life he produced hundreds of well executed works, illustrating the feelings of the artist based on his perception of events which he both witnessed personally and observed through the media. He drew on influences from a wide range of subjects, notably the two Great Wars, the microcosm and macrocosm of organic cells, black holes in space and other wonders of the natural world.