Andy Waite | Arundel Contemporary

Andy Waite

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IN THE GARDEN BEES ARE GATHERING POLLEN AND NECTAR

THE SKY GODS TELL GOOD STORIES TO THE EARTH

WHAT LANGUAGE IS THERE LEFT TO SPEAK THESE WORDS

I CLIMBED THE HILL TO THE TOP OF THE WORLD. SOLD

TONIGHT THAT I MAY BATHE IN GOLDEN LIGHT. SOLD

Oil Sketches

Overview

Andy Waite’s landscapes draw from the tradition of the Romanticists whilst expressing an energy that is distinctly contemporary. These paintings immerse you in, and are a celebration of the English landscape and all its elemental power. Their abstracted quality and emotive spontaneity mean they do not always reveal themselves immediately, asking you to return and discover something not at first seen, offering an ongoing dialogue that only slowly unfolds.
Unspoken conversations playing out that embrace all the senses, and the imponderable nature of the earth beneath us and the sky above.

Painting is an intensely personal activity that I feel compelled to do. It is also a way to express the elements in myself that are often buried in the subconscious, and I look to the landscape and the weather not just because they are things of wonder and beauty, but because they reflect my own wandering moods, be they light or dark. I make the work primarily for myself to free these feelings, and when a painting feels right then I feel at one. Andy Waite

Full time painter from 1989 onwards.
Freelance graphic designer & signwriter: 1988 – 78
Graphics & Illustration S.I.A.D. West Sussex College of Art & Design 1977 – 74

MAGAZINE FEATURES
2006: 25 Beautiful Homes
2003: Country Homes & Interiors
Chichester Observer Magazine
1999: Country Living
1995: Article in The Artist

PRIZE
2015: Highly Commended, Sussex Artists Award, Pallant House, Chichester, West Sussex
The Derek Davis Award, Arundel Gallery Trail, Arundel, West Sussex
2008: 1st Prize The Stride Open, Chichester, West Sussex

Exhibitions

SOLO EXHIBITIONS

2020 Still Comes the Sky. Personal Exhibition. Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, W. Sussex
2018 Illumine. Personal Exhibition. Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, W. Sussex

2015 The Minster Gallery, Winchester, Hants
2015 Horsham Museum & Art Gallery, West Sussex
2015 – 1989: Arundel Gallery Trail Open House, West Sussex
2014 Gallery Muse, Petersfield, Hants
2014 – 2008: Christmas Exhibition, Open House, Arundel
2007 Flowers Gallery, Emsworth, Hants
2005 Galereya, Arundel, West Sussex
2003 Worthing Museum & Art Gallery, West Sussex
1999 & 1998 Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
1998 Pallant House, Chichester, West Sussex
1996 The Catto Gallery, London
1994 The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells, Kent
1992 Christie’s Education Department, London

TWO MAN SHOWS

2014: Highgate Contemporary Art, Highgate, London
2013: Highgate Contemporary Art, Highgate, London

SELECTED GROUP EXHIBITIONS

2017 Interpretations of Landscape. Group Exhibition. Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, W. Sussex
2017 Works on Paper. Group Exhibition. Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, W. Sussex
2015: David Simon Contemporary, Bath
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Art Agency
2015 – 14: Claremont Gallery, Sevenoaks, Kent
2015 – 11: The Minster Gallery, Winchester, Hants
2014: Gallery Muse, Petersfield, Hampshire
Cameron Contemporary Art, Hove, East Sussex
Thackeray Gallery, Kensington, London
2014 – 13: Highgate Contemporary Art, Highgate, London
Junction Art Gallery, Woodstock, Oxfordshire
2014 – 12: The Art Agency, Esher, London
2013: The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Highgate Contemporary Art
2013 – 12: Wet Paint Gallery, Cirencester, Glos
Art at Five, Brighton, East Sussex
2013 – 08: The Coombe Gallery, Dartmouth, Devon
2012: The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
2012 – 11: The Architect’s Gallery, Teddington, London
2012 – 08: The Linda Blackstone Gallery, Rickmansworth, Herts
2011: The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery