Living as a child in Honolulu, Tony suffered from a faulty immune system.
At age nine Tony was lying in an oxygen tent when he had a life altering vision. “I realized I had the power to ask for healing”.
Being impaired physically and often out of school, he was lucky that his mother, Honolulu sculptor Mildred Toni, exposed him to an extraordinary education and stoked his interest in art.
“My works are the distillation of a years’ worth of experience, a year that put me square in the face of my own mortality to find healing grace within, that is also the font of creativity. To see through the portals of your eyes to understand a truth that is not other than what you make of it in the moment, not of looking but of seeing.“
Commissions and awards being numerous, Walhom’s luminous, subtly textured canvases ennoble private collections and public spaces worldwide.
