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Since the early age of five, Andrew Portwood has been expressing himself creatively through drawing and painting. After graduating with a bachelor’s degree in fine art, Andrew began his career as a storyboard artist and eventually became a published children's book illustrator. Since then, his art has evolved into a more personal form of expression. Working from memories and the "mind's eye", dreams and emotions inspire Andrew's creative processes and provide a basis for his portraits, figures and landscapes.
Artist Statement 2007 I ultimately paint to please myself. Painting, for me, is a means by which I find personal peace and self-actualization. Painting is a therapeutic vehicle by which one's own stories can be told. Personally conceived in the mind's internal eye, yet recognizable and rooted in reality's rules and structure, I develop a vision that I would like to share with others. I use my own personal picture vocabulary; a distillation of accumulated emotional vignettes/memories that I've gathered along the path of my life. Horses, animals, figures and faces all depicted in imaginary landscapes are my picture definitions of beauty and grace, power and strength and gentleness and fragility. Use of color represents moods from peaceful and somber to sharp intensity.I think that art is a creative response to one's accumulated life experiences. The subconscious mind's need to translate one's present state into visual clues, symbols, pictures, and daydreams for self-explanation of life and existence. I am seeking, struggling for, and arriving at tangible images of personal understanding.
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