Andrew Stratford

Andrew Stratford is a contemporary artist based in Harrogate. He has a BA(Hons) in Design and was a teacher for 25 years. Since leaving teaching he has focused on his own art practice and he has recently completed a Masters in Creative Practice. 

Andrew takes his inspiration from the wide open spaces and big skies of Yorkshire and the North East Coast. His work is about a continuing search for the sublime in the landscape. 

He finds the world around us endlessly fascinating, exciting,

calming, uplifting and occasionally slightly unnerving. Both outside in the landscape and in the studio he experiments with spontaneous expressive, gestural mark-making. He attempts to capture an emotion, a feeling of movement and atmosphere and to create richness, depth and texture by building up layers of colour. Although his paintings are semi-abstract in nature, he endeavours to retain a sense of place and the human connection to it.

Andrew works with a range of media including oils, acrylics, inks and charcoal and has been recently been developing his use of silk screen mono printing. He considers regular observational drawing to be fundamental to his art practice.