Andrew Gifford
“I wanted to make paintings that immersed you in the woods, where your senses could be overwhelmed by the confusion of branches and brambles and sunlight.”
Andrew Gifford is internationally recognised for his innovative paintings and light installations based on the landscape. His work has been widely exhibited, including solo public shows at Leeds City Art Gallery (2004), Fruitmarket Gallery Edinburgh (2001) and Middlesbrough Art Gallery (2000). In 2014 his exhibition Two Cities: Paintings of Jerusalem and Ramallah toured with the British Council to Al-Ma’mal Foundation, Jerusalem and the A. M. Qattan Foundation in Ramallah. Also in 2014 an exhibition, ‘Cities of the Northeast’ was shown at the University of Northumbria and in 2016 his exhibition ‘New York Paintings’ was exhibited in New York at the Spring Masters in the Armory building. Other exhibitions have taken place in Hong Kong, Singapore and Houston.
Over the last three years, the artist has been immersed himself in the landscapes & woodlands of Sussex and Yorkshire. Choosing to paint unassuming, almost incidental subjects, Andrew Gifford focuses in on the complexity of lichen clad trees, the quality lof ight falling on the woodland floor and so on, building up dense, keenly observed canvases.
‘The composition, like many of the tree paintings I have made over the last two years, is intentionally uncomposed, in an attempt to give the viewer the feeling of an incidental view, echoing the way you observe nature when surrounded by it. In my painting, which begins with small studies made outside in all weathers, I am trying to show that there is soul and beauty everywhere you look and to encourage you to stop and look harder.’
Andrew Gifford 2022
His work is included in the collections of the New Art Gallery, Walsall and Chatsworth House and in private collections in Europe, USA and Asia. A monograph on the artist was published in 2005.
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Sweet Chestnut Leaves in Early Autumn 1, 2023Click to view more
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Ancient Scots Pine Canopy II, Glen Tanar Estate, 2022Click to view more
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Damaged Old Scots Pine in the Snow, Glen Tanar , 2022Click to view more
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Early January Frost Wineham, Sussex, 2022Click to view more
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Early Morning Light with Frost, Glen Tanar Estate II, 2022Click to view more
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Elder in Sheepcote Valley II, Sussex, 2022Click to view more
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Hawthorn in Full Blossom Near Battle, 2022Click to view more
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Hornbeam and Silver Birch Autumn, 2022Click to view more
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Last Light on Scots Pine, Tornaveen Aberdeenshire, 2022Click to view more
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Pine in Last Light near Cahersiveen, Co Kerry, 2022Click to view more
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Hornbeam and Silver Birch, Sussex, Summer, 2021Click to view more
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Silver Birch Wood II, 2021Click to view more
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Andrew Gifford
4 Dec 2022 - 27 Jan 2023During 2022 Andrew Gifford's new work took him to the fringes of wilderness in Scotland's ancient Caledonian forest, in Ireland and Yorkshire.Read more -
Alone With Trees, Part II
Andrew Gifford 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2021Artist Andrew Gifford's solo exhibition Alone With Trees, Part II that was held at Cromwell Place in December 2021.Read more -
Alone with Trees I
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A Baltic Journey
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India
Andrew Gifford 6 Mar - 7 Apr 2018Collectively, the India paintings provide a superb account of the way Andrew Gifford approaches landscape painting and how he succeeds in keeping an enduring tradition relevant, fresh and modern. Painting...Read more -
Paintings of Fès
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Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings
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New York Paintings
Andrew Gifford 8 - 22 May 2015Last year, an artist friend called to say that an English painter, Andrew Gifford, was on his way to New York to create a series of urban landscapes; he asked...Read more -
Cities of the North East
Andrew Gifford 17 Oct - 7 Nov 2014Andrew Gifford Cities of the North East, John Martin GalleryRead more
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Alone With Trees, Part II - The Exhibition
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Alone With Trees Part II
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A Baltic Journey
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Painting in the City
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Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramallah
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London Landscapes
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French Paintings
Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
“Painting is an attempt to show the power of these ancient trees. The bark is covered in scales that reflect a myriad of colours, it involves such a build up of colours that it has been quite mentally exhausting to paint. The boughs of the tree have such warmth of colour that they seem to glow with light.”
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Alone with Trees: Part Three, Cromwell Place, South Kensington
2021 Alone with Trees: Part Two, Cromwell Place, South Kensington
2020 Alone with Trees: Part One, Cromwell Place, South Kensington
2019 A Baltic Journey, John Martin Gallery, London
2018 INDIA at John Martin Gallery
2017 Fès Rooftop Paintings at John Martin Gallery & the Cil Railiag Residency
2016 Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings: Art Central Hong Kong
2015 New York Paintings, Spring Masters NYC – Touring to John Martin Gallery,
2014 Cities of the North East, University of Numbria, UK
2013 Two Cities: Paintings of Jerusalem and Ramallah, John Martin London – Touring to public institutions in Jerusalem and Ramallah early 2014
2013 Mildmay Gallery, Glyndebourne, East Sussex
2012 London Landscapes, John Martin Gallery, London
2011 Spring- Amman, John Martin Gallery, London
2011 Pigment & Light, Phoenix Gallery, Brighton
2010 Budapest, John Martin Gallery, London
2010 Looking West from Albert Embankment, London Art Fair
2008 Istanbul Light Series, ArtLondon
2007 Tyne Bridge Tower Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
2006 Ganzfeld Ball Installation, London Art Fair, Arts Projects
2005 Paris Paintings 1, John Martin Gallery, London
2005 Paris Paintings 2 & Dordogne Landscapes, John Martin Chelsea
2004 Leeds /Bradford Paintings part of ‘Tales of the City’, Leeds City Art Gallery
2004 London Street Paintings, John Martin Chelsea
2004 Andrew Gifford at the London Art Fair, Business Design Centre, Islington
2003 Fontaine Evening Paintings, Art London
2002 Berlin Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
2001 Retrospective, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
2000 Paintings from the Sellamoto Studio, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
1999 The Limehouse Series, ArtLondon, Duke of Yorks Barracks
1998 Recent paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
1993 Artist in Focus, Middlesbrough Art Gallery
Group Exhibitions
2013 32 Paintings, Phoenix Art Center, Brighton
2010 Art Athina, John Martin Gallery, London/ Greece
2009 Changing Landscapes, John Martin Gallery, London
2000 Blue, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
1998 French Paintings, Art2000, Business Design Centre, Islington
1997 Fifty and One, mixed show, John Martin Gallery, London
1996 The Discerning Eye, selected by Susan Moore, Mall Galleries, London
1996 On a Grand Scale, mixed show, John Martin Gallery, London
1996 Northern Lights, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
1996 97, Business Design Centre , Islington
1996 Exhibition, John Martin Gallery, London
1995 Of Scottish Artists Annual Exhibition, R.S.A. Edinburgh
1995 Artists, John Martin Gallery, London
1995 Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition, Mall Galleries, London
1994 Laing Art Exhibition, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1994 Fantastic, nine artists, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands
1994 Show, Hatton Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1994 & Lithographs, Dovecot Arts Centre, Stockton on Tees
Prizes and Competitions
1998 Fisher Memorial Prize
1997 David Prize – finalist
1997 David Prize – finalist
1996 Journal Art Competition, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
1988/ 1989 Art Centenary Award, York College of Art & Technology
Documentaries
1997 Date with an Artist, BBC2
1997 Don’t Look Down, Scottish Television
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A Baltic Journey
Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery, 2019Paperback, 50 pagesRead more
Publisher: John Martin Gallery
ISBN: 978-1-9993013-4-7
Dimensions: 26cm x 20cm -
Andrew Gifford
Elspeth Moncrieff Elspeth Moncrieff, 2006Hardback with sleeve, 112 pagesRead more
Publisher: White Lane Press
ISBN: 9780955266706
Dimensions: 300 x 290mm -
India
Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery , 2018Paperback , 52 pagesRead more
Publisher: John Martin Gallery
ISBN: 978-0-9932195-9-7
Dimensions: 24 x 20cm