Andrew’s Blog

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 [...]

The question most often asked of me is, “Where did the idea come from?” This question is more frequent now that I’m no longer making images of the world we see every day.  This blog will be an [...]

I started this blog with the idea that I would talk about what I’m working on. That’s why I’ve shown you one of my recent paintings. However, I just returned from my least favourite of the Tate [...]

Andrew’s lockdown Blog – Spring 2020 We returned from Miami in March. I spent the majority of the time there with a headache, coughing all day and night, and feeling exhausted. I hardly had [...]

Has 2019 been a good year? It certainly has been sensational.  On a personal level, it’s the year of my eightieth birthday and of my first solo exhibition in London for more than thirty [...]

There are two important reasons that I am writing this blog post. The first reason is to give you early warning about the one-man show (is one supposed to say one-person show?) I’m having in [...]