Painter – Romantic Realism
Price range: $750-$16,000
Simon Andrew
When painting, I concern myself with colour relationships, compositional structures and the physicality of the paint. I consider ‘subject’ the framework on which I hang the paint. My work is as much about the medium as the message.
Colour is applied in an almost casual manner, other times slabbed on or carefully blended creating a diverse range of marks. Paint is treated as a physical material in its own right. It is a substance of meaning, not merely a vehicle to a desired end.
I try to make my paintings work not just on the macro level but also on the micro. I would like them to contain testing and varied passages of colour in addition to unanticipated compositions. I hope my work does not reveal all it has to say straight away but works on the observer at different levels over time, so that at one moment they might be aware of a colour relationships, the next a compositional quirk, the mood of the work and so on. Ideally it should grow with the observer in an unpredictable way.
My paintings are a distilling process. They are often primed with an emotional charge, triggered by an event or a place. The intention is that they should conclude as authentic reconstructed experience.
Available Works
Somerset Path
Evening Snow Melt
Snow Blaze
Distant Mountain Landscape
Small River & Hills painting
Orange Sky Streak
Lake Inlet
Corn Field against the sky
Still Winter Night
Warm Evening
Sunset Orange
October Landscape
Spring Three trees
Spring Wind
Low Clouds Spring
Lake District Valley
Corn Field
Moon Rising from Clouds
Architecture Online2
Books, Candles, and Tea
Getting Ready
Window Reflected in Picture Frame
Brisk Weather
Monmouthshire Landscape
Winter Sunrise
Sand Dunes Above Beach
Daubigny Riverside landscape
Strawberries and Lemons
Still life with Bisected Orange
Cool Winter Evening
Trees on the Skyline
Porthcurno
Snow on the Mountains
Catalogs
Simon Andrew: “Interior Nature” Solo Exhibition e-Catalog 2020
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 24 from 2-5pm
This exhibition has Simon Andrew focusing on the patterns in nature but also reflecting these outer patterns within a painting. He is not only focusing on the structure and observed components of the environment but how that interplay is expressed within the seeming randomness of form in a piece of art. This internal language or translation of nature in a piece of art can in itself become an expression of nature.
preview: Thursday & Friday, Oct 22-23, 2020
EXHIBITION ON-LINE CATALOG AVAILABLE HERE
Simon Andrew: “Formulating Landscape” solo Exhibition e-Catalog 2017
Simon Andrew /// Formulating Landscape: Solo Exhibition 2017
May 11 – 31, 2017
To view the exhibition e-Catalog click HERE
Biography
Simon Andrew was born in Portsmouth, spent his formative years in Penwith, Cornwall studied science at Queen’s University, Canada and fine art at Newcastle University where he received his MFA. While Simon was at Newcastle he was the beneficiary of The Lawrence Atwell Scholarship Award from Skinners’ Hall, London. U.K.
Simon was awarded first prize (Northern Region) for his work in The Laing National Landscape Competition. London. His work was also selected for The Hunting Group Contemporary Art Competition.
He has received arts council grants and is represented in major corporate collections, including Glaxo Welcome, Hewlett Packard, Canadian Business Development Bank, Fidelity Investments and Her Majesty the Queen in Right. Simon has produced art for the artistic ventures of Mel Gibson and the Canadian multi – Juno Award winning group The Tragically Hip. He has attended residencies in both Canada and abroad and was the recipient of a full fellowship award from The Vermont Studio Center, USA. Recently Simon won first prize for his work in Exposures, an exhibition which was judged by curators from contemporary public art galleries in Canada. He has had numerous solo shows at galleries both public and commercial at home and abroad. Currently Simon works in Canada and England.