ANDREW FITCHETT

I have been painting in and around Lewes since leaving London in 1992.

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The visual composition skills I developed during my design and advertising career have a strong presence in my paintings but draughtsmanship is its foundation. Whether I am working on small drawings or large oil paintings, detail is unavoidable. Inspiration often comes from the atmosphere of a place. I am particularly drawn to moments of stillness and isolation and these sensations make a landscape interesting for me rather than any specific type of terrain. The painting that follows is a kind of enhanced memory of that place which is developed in my studio from sketches made on location. My long-standing fascination with Crows is more folklore than ornithological and they often make appearances in my paintings.

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My work is in private collections in UK, Holland, Germany, Norway, America and Canada and I have exhibited my work from Brighton to Edinburgh.