Andrew has been working as a figurative realist artist, specialising in portraiture, for nearly 30 years. His portrait of Lucian Freud’s first wife, Kitty won him first prize at the BP Portrait Awards in 2006, he had won the Travel Award there in 1996. Sitters have included Tony Benn, Lord Carrington, Eric Sykes, Cormac McCarthy, Ken Livingstone, Noddy Holder, and Lord Chief Justice Woolf. He was commissioned by the National Portrait Gallery to paint Neil and Glenys Kinnock for the national collection. Past awards include The Japan Festival Award, The European Painting Award at the Frissiras Museum, Athens and the Emerson Group Award at the Manchester Academy of Fine Arts.
His work is represented in the public collections of The Smithsonian Museum, Washington DC, The Palace of Westminster, Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery, Birmingham, The Frissiras Museum in Athens and the CORPO Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art, Toledo. The New Art Gallery, Walsall held a major retrospective of his paintings in 2018. A year later he was commissioned in conjunction with The Royal Collection Trust, The Arts Council and Sunderland Museum and Winter Gardens to make a series of new drawings to coincide with the 500th anniversary of Leonardo Da Vinci’s death. Andrew’s drawings were exhibited alongside Leonardo da Vinci’s drawings from The Royal Collection.
Andrew’s intense and highly detailed paintings are the product of hundreds of hours work.
