Contemporary Landscape Art
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Ink & Pastel
Ink and pastel landscape works on paper
Painting (on wood/canvas)
Landscape paintings in acrylic
Acrylic / Ink / Pastel
Mixed media landscape works on paper
Landscape: Relation and Reverence
My work explores landscape as a field of relation, where longing, imagination, and perception become inseparable from place.
Working with ink, pastel, graphite, acrylic, and oil, I create paintings and drawings in which mountains, hills, and wider landscapes become a recurring visual language. These works develop through direct experience and a process of making in which the physical qualities of the materials shape the direction of the image.
Walking forms an important part of my practice. Being within ancient landscapes, rolling countryside, borderlands, and mountain regions cultivates a way of attending that continues in the studio. The act of making becomes another form of attention, where perception, imagination, and the physical qualities of the materials are brought into relationship.
I am drawn to mountains, hills, and ancient earthworks because they have long been understood as thresholds between the human and the more-than-human, where the numinous is encountered through the material world. My work is informed by mythology, folklore, contemplative traditions, and enduring ways of relating to the Earth. The paintings grow from the possibility that the visible world discloses depths of reality held within its own material presence.
Each medium lends itself to a different quality of expression. The ink and pastel drawings maintain a closer relationship with the structures and rhythms of the land, built patiently through the accumulation of line, mark, and gesture. The paintings allow colour, surface, and light to become more dominant, creating images where landscape moves beyond direct description into a more intangible register.
Landscape is the visual language through which a reverent relationship with the living Earth becomes visible. The work explores the sublime and the numinous through images that resist fixed interpretation, inviting sustained looking and leaving space for meanings that cannot be fully resolved in words.
Further exploration
The blog articles explores many of the traditions that inform my practice, including mythology and folklore, depth psychology, spirituality, landscape writing, and artists whose work engages with nature, symbol, and the numinous.
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Scottish Highlands, formative landscape encounter
Biography
Andrew (b. 1985) is from Worthing on the south coast of West Sussex, between the English Channel and the South Downs. The surrounding landscapes include the hills of Cissbury and Chanctonbury, both with long histories of human encounter — Neolithic flint mines, Iron Age hill forts, and continuing associations with myth and folklore. From an early age, walking in this landscape of chalk and flint has provided a lasting source of inspiration.
Andrew first began making landscape images while studying BA (Hons) Fine Art: Contemporary Media at the University of South Wales in Caerleon (2005–2008), itself a place with significant historical and mythic layers. A formative experience during this time came through walking post-industrial valley landscapes, where spoil heaps from mining — traces of extraction and loss — were gradually being reclaimed by vegetation and wildlife. These observations informed a central concern in his work: holding together experiences of awe and wonder in nature with an awareness of what has been altered or lost. His degree dissertation was titled Beginning With The Wound: Shamanism in Contemporary Art.
After graduating with first-class honours, Andrew worked in mental health and social care. In order to deepen his engagement with the relationship between psyche, image, and lived experience, he undertook an MA in Art Psychotherapy at Goldsmiths, University of London (2010–2013).
In 2015 he moved to Edinburgh, motivated by a long-standing desire to live closer to the mountainous North. The five years he spent in Scotland were formative for his artistic practice, during which he exhibited regularly with Visual Arts Scotland and the Scottish Society of Artists (SSA), becoming an elected Professional Member in 2019.
Andrew currently lives in Newport, South East Wales, where he continues to work from his studio. He offers online Art Psychotherapy for adults, informed by depth psychology, transpersonal, and creative therapy traditions.
Chanctonbury Ring, Sussex