BA Hons Fine Art (painting
and drawing) Duncan and Jordanstone.
A landscape specialist, Andy moved over
to the Ardnamurchan Peninsula to capture
the essence of the West Coast and aid
in the development of resipole studios
with colleague Andrew Sinclair.
His work uses traditional compositional
devices and techniques reflecting
the traditional landscape of the West
Coast. Placing great emphasis on grounding
his paintings in solid techniques
that allow him to build the work up
gradually in a series of layers; his
method is to apply a ground in Raw
Sienna or perhaps some other earth
colour and do a detailed underdrawing
into that in pencil, creating an “
"Imprimatura” building
the tonal structure onto once dry,
then applying glazes of colour to
give the final effect. Once at the
colour stage that is when the painting
becomes an individual piece and the
technical aspects of the creation
give the structure for subsequent
embellishment.
