ANDREW SCOTT GEORGE

 It is not so common to find an artist who is so adept with the technique of egg tempera. It is a hard medium to control but Andrew George is particularly masterful with it. He works in the Mendips, the range of hills south of Bath , and elects to paint the winter landscape. He declares that the bare trees of winter are far more interesting than the dense foliage of summer. In recent months he has also re-discovered parts of the West of Scotland.

His style echoes that of the high Realists, painters who rendered every detail in a landscape. His acute observation and attention to detail means that there is always something new to find in the images. However one can also say that he works within the Northern European romantic tradition. These are not just portraits of wooded hillsides – he captures an air of mystery about them, a spirit that would be readily identifiable to other artists working in this vein, from Friedrich to Andrew Wyeth.

Andrew is a Scottish artist who trained at Edinburgh College of Art. He moved to Somerset in the 1980s and has exhibited regularly in the West Country since. Given the highly demanding strictures of his principal technique, for his moments of madness he paints sparkling, expressionist style, small-scale landscapes.

Selected Biography
1952 Born Newcastle to Scottish Father from Glasgow
Edinburgh College of Art

Exhibitions
1975 Lamp of Lothian, Haddington
1984/85/86 Nevill gallery, Bath
1989 The Black Swan Guild, Frome
1997 Atkinson Gallery, Millfield Open (Prizewinner)
1997/98 Anthony Hepworth, Bath
2000 South West Arts, Exeter (Prizewinner)
2000/01/02/03/04 Marine Gallery at Beer
2000/01/02/03 Anderson Gallery, Burford
2000/02 Pewsey gallery, Pewsey
2000 Royal West of England Academy Annual (Prizewinner)
2001 Manor House Gallery, Cheltenham
2002 Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, London
2002/04 Somerset Art Week
2006 Affordable Art Fair, London

Collections
Fleming-Wyfold Art Foundation, London