Andrew Stratford is a contemporary landscape

painter based in North Yorkshire. His work focuses on atmosphere, weather and the emotional resonance of place, drawing on the moorlands and coastlines of northern England.

Painting in oil and acrylic, Andrew uses an expressive, process-led approach in which layers are built, disrupted and reworked. The resulting surfaces move between abstraction and representation, evoking the physical and sensory experience of landscape rather than a fixed depiction.

After a career in primary education, he now works full time as an artist and runs painting and drawing courses and workshops that encourage a more intuitive and exploratory approach to materials and mark-making. His work has been exhibited in galleries and selected exhibitions across the UK, and is held in private collections, reflecting a growing recognition of his distinctive atmospheric approach.

“My paintings explore the shifting atmosphere of the northern landscape — not as a fixed view, but as something felt, remembered and constantly changing.

Working between observation and abstraction, I build each piece through layered paint, allowing marks to be obscured, revealed and reworked. This process mirrors the instability of weather itself — moments of clarity emerging from turbulence, light breaking through dense, unsettled space.

I’m not interested in describing a place precisely. Instead, I’m trying to hold onto something more fleeting: the weight of air before rain, the pull of wind across open ground, the sense of standing within a landscape rather than looking at it. These paintings sit within an ongoing body of work I think of as Weather Systems — where land, sky and memory collapse into one shifting, atmospheric field.”