Andrew Curtis Art
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About the Artist
Born 1960.
Studied Fine Art at:
Ruskin School of Fine Art
St. Edmund Hall, Oxford
Member of the Surrey Artists Network
He has exhibited with the New English Art Club, Royal Society of British Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters (winner of the 2002 Winsor and Newton Award), the Royal West of England Academy and galleries in UK, Europe and Japan.
Contemporary artist Andrew Curtis on his travels.
"Much of my work is inspired by my travels and the places I have seen.
"It is rooted in observation but when attempting to capture what Alexander Pope called the “genius of the place”, mere topographical verisimilitude is not enough. Abstraction is a means by which one can produce work that gets underneath the surface of a subject.
"If I have time I will sit down with an easel and paint a conventional oil study. I also always travel with a sketchbook in which I record what I see and make notes of my impressions of a place. Back in the studio, work begins in “translating” the gathered impressions.
"The outcome of each work is never clear until it is finished, as I believe the best work has to surprise one and paintings evolve naturally over time."
Extracts from an article in The Artist magazine August 2006