Robert Andrews

The starting points for these works are aspects of the urban environment, usually as framed by (and glimpsed through) windows or doorways. Shapes, surfaces, textures and spatial relationships all play a part in the development of the work. The uncertainty of visual perception is another ‘inspiration’ for these artworks. So too is my interest in the ‘aesthetics of the ordinary’. A series of opposites also plays a role in the creation of the paintings – presence and absence, the surface and what lies beneath, abstraction and representation, the actual and the implied. This play of opposites adds to the meditative quality in the work.