Andrew Lawrence

Biography

I am a 72 year old pensioner living in York. At school I did a-level art and painted a little bit with oils and poster paint. When I left school it more or less stopped, even at school of architecture I never sketched or painted. About 5 or 6 years ago I decided that I would like to have a go at Water Colour painting and enrolled in a a local class, and was staggered at how much I enjoyed it. I now have my own little "studio" in the spare room. I work solely from my own photographs which I crop and tweak in Photoshop Elements. I suppose some will say that I copy the photographs, but what I paint is never the same and I wouldn't want to. Patchings Art Centre asked me to display one of my paintings last year, and the experience was very uplifting. I have been told that I should consider selling some of my work, but I do not have sufficient confidence in my work, so for the time being it either gets framed and hung in the house or goes into a drawer.