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.
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