Early Work

When he entered the Hornsey College of Art at age 15, Toynton was painting portraits and landscapes, very much in the tradition of English representational art. At the Royal College of Art, he began experimenting with Pop Art; in 1962, he was included, with David Hockney and Allen Jones, in ‘Image in Progress’, the first Pop Art show in London. Later in the 60’s, while retaining a Pop sensibility, his work took on more surrealist elements, turning objects from the real world into multi-coloured shapes.