The Great Atlantic Map Works Gallery

David Andrew was born in Redruth, Cornwall in 1934, educated at Falmouth College of Art and the Slade School of Fine Art during the 1950’s and art has been his lifelong profession.

In the 1960’s he was Visiting Artist at Portsmouth and Bournemouth Colleges of Art successively, before moving to Canada in 1971 to set up the Printmaking Department at Queen’s University, Kingston, Ontario. He spent over twenty years as an Associate Professor at Queen’s, transferring to the Painting Department there from 1974.

David has travelled widely, painting around the coast of Canada and the USA, especially California, and also in Europe: Yugoslavia, Crete, Italy, France, Portugal and the Island of Elba. Some of the paintings in this exhibition were made during a one year sabbatical that he spent travelling along the Pacific coast of North America using a recreational vehicle as his home and studio.

Since his return to Cornwall from Canada some four years ago, David Andrew has painted in Cornwall. He has had two major exhibitions with Messum’s in London’s Cork Street. His 2009 exhibition at The Great Atlantic Arwenack Street Gallery in Falmouth was his first major solo show in Cornwall for many years.

In addition to his shows at Messum’s in Cork Street, the list of galleries that have shown David Andrew’s work is long and impressive and includes major venues in Canada, USA and Europe.

David Andrew’s paintings are bright and loose and simply blaze with colour. This exhibition from 21st March - 15th April is certainly one not to be missed.

A professional artist through and through, David Andrew describes his work as abstract realism. His paintings are big and colourful and make bold statements about places, features and locations on the on the one hand, with much of what might be called subtle intrigue on the other.

“If there is only one reality, certainly there is more than one road towards it, and we are more likely to lose our way with our eyes closed than with them open.” David Andrew

A collection of David Andrew’s work may be seen at:
www.greatatlantic.co.uk/davidandrew