Andrew’s Blog

I have added a new gallery to my website. The circumstances in which we find ourselves, dictate this. You will understand once you visit the gallery. Before you do however please read this blog [...]

This is my first blog of the New Year, so I’ll begin by wishing you a happy and fruitful 2024. My work has not been going well. I’m probably having the same thing one reads about for writers: [...]

It’s unusual for me to send out blog posts as frequently as this. I’m sorry if I’m boring you but I couldn’t let things pass unsaid. I hope you will agree that this needs to be said now rather [...]

It’s unusual for me to send out blogs as frequently as this. I want to try to put down in writing something about the process of making the paintings I’m working on. At the same time I will [...]

It has been a long time since I wrote a post.  The main reason is that I have been primarily concentrating on making paintings. I find more and more that I want to use words less and less. They [...]

I’m not sure about why I am showing you one of my equestrian paintings. I can only think that it has something to do with going to the Cezanne exhibition at the Tate Modern a few days ago. There [...]

I will try to clarify why I make these paintings. I write this as much for myself as for all those who ask me what my paintings are about. Perhaps I have written about it before, but it helps in [...]

I went to the Raphael exhibition at the National Gallery yesterday. The entire show is wonderful. To pick out any single painting would be ludicrous. They are all great and deserve more time than [...]

Just got back from a lovely afternoon’s visit to Tate Britain with a former colleague and friend of mine.  The Walter Sickert exhibition, which was the main reason for visiting the Tate, is [...]

When I started writing this blog it became a list of complaints about our current situation. Paula read it and said, “nobody wants to hear you kvetching”. So I listened to my wise wife, as I [...]