Anthony Amies was educated 1961-4 Great Yarmouth College of Art; 1964-70 Slade School of Fine Art, University College London - Painting graduate, Printmaking post-graduate.  He won several prizes when at the Slade including the Tonks Prize for Drawing, and was a prize winner in the 1967 Young Contemporaries at the Tate, and the Royal Commonwealth in 1968. In 1977 Anthony received an Arts Council Award, having won first prize in 'Camden 73' four years earlier.He was closely involved in the teaching of art in Camden from 1973-1995 at the Camden Institute (ILEA), the Camden Arts Centre and the Camden School of Art.