Andrew Hardwick

Hardwick paints large scale richly texture paintings. He uses a combination of unconventional materials including plaster and soils He paints edgeland enviroments around Royal Portbury and Avonmouth Docks, where his studio is located He paints this ever changing landscape, as well as the one he remembers herding sheep by the estuary. Watching now long scrapped ships escape to open sea His paintings explore the sensibilities of these powerful elemental places, exploring land use, feelings and memory