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Artist Statement for Nick Andrew
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Nick Andrew studied Art and Graphic Design in Oxford, London and Cheltenham. Since graduating in 1979, Nick has been working as a painter, based in Wiltshire and Dorset, and has exhibited widely, throughout the UK, mainland Europe, and the USA.
His studio is in part of a watermill on the upper reaches of the River Wylye in South Wiltshire, where he lives with his wife, Kate and their young daughter.
Nick exhibits regularly, recent exhibitions include: Taurus Gallery, Oxford; Picture House Gallery, Dorchester; S10 Gallery, Sheffield; First View Gallery, Stourton; Reubens Gallery, Leeds; Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge; Oriel-y-Felin, Pembrokeshire; Circle Gallery, Edinburgh; Treg’Aquarelle, Brittany; Moreton Street Gallery, London; Wills Art Warehouse, London; Glasgow Art Fair; Fisherton Mill, Salisbury; Wylye Valley Art Trail, 2003; Red Gallery, Thame; The Tinners’ Rabbit, Cumbria; Rooksmoor Gallery, Bath; Affordable Art Fair, London and Bristol, Museum of Modern Art, Machynlleth, Wales; Long Curve Gallery, Chipping Camden; First Sight Gallery, Bath; Manchester Art Show; Trebah Gardens Gallery, Cornwall, Battersea Contemporary Art Fair; and Salisbury Playhouse
Recently, he has worked on commissions for St. Bartholomew’s Hospital, London; BHHI Hospital, London; Royal London Hospital; Broadgate Estates; P&O; Barnet Hospital; Prudential Assurance; ‘Paintings in Hospitals’; HQ Properties; St. Georges Hospital, Tooting; Tatchbury Mount Hospital, Southampton. He has work in a range of public and private collections including Scottish Equitable, Shell UK, Lloyd’s Bank, North Sea Ferries, Cable and Wireless, Hilton International, Texaco, Hampshire County Council, Houses of Parliament.
He describes his work as follows :
“ In my work, I am referring to quiet, intimate, secluded places within the landscape, places that I can get to know well, where I walk and draw often, observing changes from day to day and season to season. Generally this tends to be close to my home and studio near the River Wylye in South Wiltshire, although recently I have been working further afield . I would like to think that I convey through my paintings the sense of quietness and ‘solitary involvement’ with the landscape.
Over the past few years, and probably due to my proximity to the Wylye, I have become increasingly involved with water as an endless focus of inquiry and source of ideas, looking in particular for aspects of rhythm, pattern, depth and multi - layering, as well as becoming more conscious of the huge breadth of moods that it inspires.
Most of the paintings are carried out in the studio, each piece of work is developed from a variety of references: sketches, photos, notes and memory. The process is physical, uncertain but exciting, predominately intuitive, and primarily concerned with the most basic of instincts : mark - making.“
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