"I'm drawn to quiet and secluded places within my immediate landscape and have spent much of the past 2 decades working from this beautiful area, with river, ponds, water-meadows and woodland close to where I live and work on the banks of the River Wylye, South Wiltshire
I observe the changes from day to day and season to season. I find it constantly compelling and am attracted in particular by the abstract qualities in the landscape: patterns in the river flow, multi- layering and reflectivity; also the textures, contrasts and depths in the forest and the movement, rhythms and colours of field grasses and plant life. I would like to think that I convey through my paintings a sense of the movement, life and my own 'solitary involvement' with this landscape."
Nick Andrew studied art and graphic design in Oxford, London and Cheltenham, and has exhibited widely since the early 1980s. He has work is in many public and private collections. Andrews' home and studio are on the upper reaches of the River Wylye in South Wiltshire.
Andrews' also undertakes plein air drawing projects further afield, including 'Sticks in the Smoke': researching London public green spaces through mixed media sketchbook drawing and a blog. And 'A Gap in the Market' in 2021, documenting a year in the life of Salisbury's historic charter Market.
In 2017 Andrews' was presented with the Individual Artist Award in the Wiltshire Life Awards. Nick Andrew is the co-ordinator for the Wylye Valley Art Trail, a biennial open studios event in South Wiltshire which he founded in 2001.