Artists > Andrew George
GEORGE SCOTT ANDREW
1952 Born Newcastle to Scottish Father from Glasgow
1970-74 Edinburgh College of Art
A high realist style is characteristic of the work of artists who use egg tempera. The Medium only allows the application of small amounts of pigment at any one time. It disallows the grand painterly gesture as the egg often dries too quickly on the brush. Few artists take the trouble with this glorious medium, but those who do are highly rewarded for their patience.
Andrew Goerge is one such artist. He paints the landscapes around his home in the Mendip hills of North Somerset, Dorset's coastline and the hills of Scotland. On first impression Andrew Geroge's paintings are finely detailed - they are incredibly well observed, often with each blade of grass or small pebble given perfect realisation; and yet on closer inspection one notices passages of paint which are almost abstract, where the detail is more impressionistically suggested. Multiple perspectives lead the eye to a combination of vanishing points, that provide a wonderful sense of space and distance.
The landscapes are selected for their sense of the sublime, Many are rugged and windswept. The uncomfortable feeling of standing close to a Dorset cliff edge with the sheer drop to the sea, or the barreness of a hillside moor, tend to give the paintings a visual edge. Many are winter scenes, winter being his preferred season; bare trees open up a landscape where the dense foliage of summer closes it down.
George graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1974. Recently his paintings have come to be seen as part of the tradition of Scottish realist art, a tradition that goes back to the 18th century. The purchase of a major painting by the Fleming Collection of Scottish Art, London in 2005 recognised George within this history.
Written by Geoffrey Bertram, September 2009. Exhibitions
1975 Lamp of Lothian, Haddington
1984 Nevill Gallery, Bath
1985 Nevill Gallery, Bath
198 Nevill Gallery, Bath
1989 The Black Swan Guild, Frome
Collections
1997 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield Open (Prizewinner)
1998 Anthony Hepworth, Bath
2000 South West Arts, Exeter (Prizewinner)
" South West Arts, Exeter (Prizewinner)
2001 Manor House Gallery, Cheltenham
" Marine Gallery at Beer
" Anderson Gallery, Burford
" Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
" Pewsey Gallery, Pewsey
" Somerset Art Week
2003 Marine Gallery at Beer
" Anderson Gallery, Burford
2004 Marine Gallery, Burford
" Somerset Art Week
2006 Affordable Art Fair, London with Bertram
" Somerset Art Week
" Quartz, Queens College, Taunton
" Art London Art Fair, with Bertram
" Sadler Street Gallery, Wells
2007 Affordable Art Fair, with Bertram
" Glasgow Art Fair, with Bertram
" Portal Gallery, London
" 21/21 British Art Fair with Portal Gallery
" Art London Art Fair, with Bertram
2009 Gallery LeFort Fine Art, Bath
Collections
Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, London
Dorsey & Whitney, London
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