“I think that painting is also a way to have somewhere other to go in a world full of distractions and chatter. We live with an overload of information and communication, and while those can be good or useful things, the need to divulge our every waking thought and action has reached extreme levels and one is led to ask, where is the quiet and the inner reflection? Painting gives me this.”

Andy’s paintings result from a combination of swiftly made sketches in the field, and photographs from which he also makes drawings. He may then focus on one area of the drawing that excites in terms of colour and form and produces a painting from that. From the drawing a painting will begin to emerge, sometimes changing in mood or composition, but always with a sense that in time, something will appear that resonates. Although based on real places, the paintings are becoming, increasingly, landscapes of the soul.

This collection portrays all the drama and intensity we would expect from Andy’s work. Vast skies, a broad spectrum of palette and moods, bravely and loosely applied to canvas or board, large and small.

What attracts us most about his work is that the images seep into the consciousness slowly, they aren’t obvious, and slowly you get an impression, but not the whole story  straight away.  We are intrigued and moved and given a deeper perception of what it is to be human.