STATEMENT of INTENT

Andrew Lenthall is a practicing artist and architect. Based in Winchester, his professional career has been focused in London and the Home Counties, but drawing and painting has been his lifelong passion.

First exhibiting a painting at just age 9, his talent was recognised at a young age by those around him. At university this ability shone through in all his project work. He exhibited his work at Portsmouth's Guildhall Mountbatten Gallery in 1984, his portfolio was later selected for the Hampshire Consortium for Art and Design exhibition in 1989 and he was ultimately proud to be awarded the Royal Institute of British Architects 'Southern Region Prize' the same year. Andrew is a member of the Society of Architectural Illustrators and exhibited his work at the Guild of Aviation Artists' 2024 summer exhibition. 

Andrew is not wedded to any particular style or topic matter. He's enjoying a journey of artistic development but feels most at ease with pencil/pen drawings or acrylic paintings.

His current work seeks to meld 'topic' and 'narrative' to tell a story through the painted image using composition, colour and tonal drama with acrylic on stretched canvas. Andrew also cherishes simple fast sketches as vehicles to explore and understand space. 

“I want my work to be attractive to the eye, experienced at many levels and both scholarly in creation whilst bringing joy to the viewer."

His journey is thus one of both a hunger for complexity, and a revelling in the simple joy of art.

Andrew is strategically planning his direction of travel such that when he retires from the architectural workplace he will paint, draw, exhibit and open a small provincial gallery to show his work and that of like-minded artists  and crafts persons - 'a place of flourishing ideas'.

"I envisage my journey as walking carefully across a landscape - a terrain of features, events and landmarks. Moving first through varied topics as vehicles to develop and enhance my skill, then to landscapes and seascapes, and then ultimately to portraiture and recognition from the Royal Watercolour Society. In the long term, I want the narrative in my work to migrate from 'local' to 'global' topics - climate change, migration, resources, ageing, pandemic, governance, conflict, scientific development, space travel".

Currently Andrew is exhibiting his work at the New Ashgate Gallery in Farnham as part of its Winter exhibition or art and craft, (which runs until 11th January 2025) and preparing for submissions to the Royal Academy, Royal Watercolour Society and Guild of Aviation Artists 2025 summer exhibitions.