Andrew’s practice is deeply rooted in the time he spent studying and working in St Ives, Cornwall. Having begun his art education with formal portraiture at Heatherley’s School of Art, immersing himself in the distinct landscape and coastal light of St Ives prompted a major shift in his work toward abstraction and structured landscape composition. Rather than forcing a literal translation of the terrain, he uses his studio practice to experiment with the tension between pure abstraction and organic form. 

 

His process relies heavily on mixed media and collage, incorporating sketches, past paintings, and fragments of coloured paper to rebuild the textures of the English countryside. By taking his sketchbook directly into the environment and translating those raw observations into abstract studio pieces, his goal is to capture the initial, unrefined emotional response to a place, leaving the viewer space to navigate the boundary between memory and geography.