Interior with balcony view

When you've been making art for a while, it's inevitable that you forget some of your artwork. It was a nice surprise to stumble across this lovely etching while looking for something else. I decided to let it see the light of day again- it's a view from a suburban place I once lived, on an overcast afternoon.

It's hard to match the colours exactly when photographing, but the etching is a nice reddish brown- sepia which saturates the whole picture with a warm glow. The lighter tones have a pinkish cast to them. The nature of the etching process is such, that, the paper's surface becomes textured as the paper is forced into all the grooves on the etching plate to get out the ink that makes the print.

Framed in an oak finish frame.

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Andrew is an Adelaide Hills resident who primarily draws landscapes, but also interiors and still lifes. He works in the en plein air tradition (outdoors), and is always entertained by the side of the road chats he has with passersby who wonder what he's doing. Among other things, he has been mistaken for a stalker, a burglar, and an inspector from the water board.

Andrew graduated from North Adelaide School of Art in 1998, and has exhibited since winning the Novice Section of the Balaklava Art Prize in 1994. He has a long association with the Hahndorf Academy, winning numerous prizes, including the Heysen Prize for landscape in 1999 and more recently was Highly Commended in the Adelaide Hills Landscape Art Prize. He was also pleased to be invited to exhibit in the 2019 Kedumba Drawing Award.

He is primarily concerned with line, and has been known to spend hours constructing a drawing as a background for a nice shaped line.

Studio visits can be arranged if you’d like a better look at his work.

Andrew is able to undertake commissions and can be contacted through Bluethumb.