Early Shift Simon Andrew

A fiery orange skyline rises to meet thick magenta clouds above a row of industrial buildings in this moody oil on canvas. This gestural, impasto landscape reflects Andrew's "distilling process" an emotive depiction that verges on abstraction but is pulled back to realism by the horizon line. Andrew graduated with his MFA from Newcastle University in northeast England. He has exhibited widely with 27 solo shows in the UK and Canada. He has received two Ontario Arts Council awards and won landscape competitions including the Laing National Landscape Competition and the Lawrence Atwell Award both in the UK. Andrew's work is in corporate, public and private collections including that of actor Mel Gibson and Her Majesty The Queen in Right. His work was featured on the cover of the Canadian band Tragically Hip.