The Enveloping Canopy: An exhibition by Andrew Halliday

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The Enveloping Canopy captures the life, death and endurance of trees in the New Forest.

Andrew Halliday's focus over the past year has been a wood at Dibden Purlieu, where he walks daily with his labradoodle, Bramble. A popular scenic spot for locals, these woods reveal the dynamic and often innovative lives of trees and their impact on the landscape. Painting mostly in acrylic and oil, Andrew has also experimented with collage and mixed media drawings to record this resilient, local environment.

Andrew studied at Bournville School of Art before graduating with a BA honours degree in painting from Wimbledon School of Art in 1991, later winning a placement as a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam. He has taken much inspiration from painters such as Edward Hopper, David Hockney and Giorgio Morandi and more recently the Pre Raphaelites with John Ruskin's drawings in particular.

Andrew occasionally work plein air, but mostly it's back in the studio. He has no problems working from photography and since the advent of all things digital finds the speed and ease of it's immediate reference invaluable in his practice. His work can be found in public and private collections in the UK, USA, Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands. He appeared as a heat finalist in the Sky Arts programme Landscape Artist of The Year in 2018 and 2019.

Andrew lives in Lymington, Hampshire. He is a tutor to a small group of students and is a qualified picture framer (Fine Art Trade Guild Certified Framer).