Killeen, Atlantic: 2012 acrylicon canvas 30.5 x 40.6 cm 12 x 16 in
Retail Value: $1,100 USD €800 Euro
CURRENT BID : $560 USD €400 Euro
Andrew Wykes was born in the UK just outside of London. He studied at Richmond upon Thames College, and Epsom School of Art and Design where he received his undergraduate qualifications in fine art. His graduate studies were completed at American University, Washington, DC where he received his MFA in painting. He has taught art for thirty years in schools and colleges in the UK, Belgium and the US. Andrew has shown his work nationally and internationally including London and in New York. He is a recipient of two Minnesota State Arts Board Initiative Awards in 2009 and 2013, he was awarded a fellowship at the Ballinglen Arts Foundation in Mayo, Ireland, and is featured in the document film “ Painting the Place Between”. Andrew is currently an Associate Professor at Hamline University in St Paul. He lives in Northfield, Minnesota with his wife and two daughters.
"In my current paintings, the premise is to make a balanced dialog between the intellectual and emotional. I paint the geography of where I find myself, in the United States or overseas in Britain, Ireland and recently, Jamaica. These places are eclectic and don’t always have any deep affinity for me, yet there is a bond. Perhaps the link is carried around in my personal history of associations: my nerves and preferences. My working process is analogous to the formal and expressive language in music; the parameters of structures, strategies, dynamics and timbres is a parallel working approach I use to make engaging visual arguments.
These works were made on site and in the studio. The medium I work with varies – oil, acrylic, tempera and paper. However, the goal is always the same: to make an equivalent and authentic response to what I experience from the spatial landscape to the flat surface of my paintings." http://www.grovelandgallery.com