Andrew Waddington

Andrew Waddington studied at Falmouth School of Art in 1978/1979 and later at Dyfed College of Art between 1979 and 1982. He creates mixed media paintings and prints, often depicting animals in an imaginary landscape.

'I return again and again to images from the Cro-Magnon cave paintings at Chauvet in South Eastern France. These groups of animals float in an unknown space of reverse perspective - they are realistic images of Bears, Lions, Deer, Owls and Bison, in a 'landscape' we no longer recognise.'

Music and poetry also influence Andrew's work. 'The multi-layering, ideas of time and the balancing of a composition in Harrison Birtwistle's music are there as are ideas from Debussy's 'Epigraph Antique' and Boulez's piano sonatas.'

All these elements filter through into the paintings. Although Andrew has spent a lot of time drawing from life in the past, he prefers to avoid this approach now, instead trying to capture the memory of his subject matter.