After gaining a Graphic Arts Degree in Cornwall, Andrew began a career in London as an illustrator and art director, contributing to projects in advertising, design, TV and film, architecture and digital media in the UK and internationally, as well as undertaking private and corporate commissions of original work. The influence of popular culture, classical realism and abstraction is carried through into his work today.
In 2008 Andrew began to divide his time between projects as both a painter and an illustrator. In 2009 he began exhibiting his representational work in the Royal Institute of Oil Painters annual show and has since returned to the Mall Gallery with the New English Art Club and the ROI. Andrew paints in a loose, impressionist style and his work has quickly found an appreciative audience and his paintings are to be found work private collections throughout the UK.
For an artist there are few places more compelling than Venice. Since the early 16th century the city has been a centre for art, with the work of Titian, Tintoretto, Veronese and others influencing the later development of European painters. With the Grand Tour, from the 17th to 19th centuries increasing the popularity of Venice as a cultural destination, it became one of the world's iconic cities and it has become one of Andrew's favourite subjects.
"When I first visited the city I was struck by this place of deep familiarity. Its canals, alleys and squares, the lagoon and islands are images we have all grown up with. It is not surprising artists have found, over the centuries, inspiration in the Venetian landscape. Each piece I paint is always a personal description of being in that place at that time, each painting reflecting another experience of this remarkable city".