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Andrew Gifford b. 1970

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  • Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of... Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of...

    Current Project:Painting Britain's Rainforest

    In spring 2024, Andrew Gifford embarked on a long-standing project to paint the thin strip of Atlantic rainforest that runs from Cornwall to Scotland. Working on location in the woods, his studies set out to capture the dense, lush flora of these precious pockets of woodland. The resulting large scale canvases and studies  will be exhibited in 2025 with an accompanying book.
     
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    About the Artist

    Andrew Gifford is 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. 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. Recent exhibitions at Cromwell Place have focused on a remarkable series of woodland and scrub, places of great ecological importance which are often overlooked. The artist's intensive study of the complex tangle of branches, brambles, nettles and filtered light of coppiced woodland led  to a remarkable series of large scale, emmerisive paintings exhibited between 2020 - 2024.

     

     

  • “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.”

  • Selected Works

    Andrew Gifford, Evening Sun with Cow Parsley and Hawthorn, Romney Marsh , 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, 26. Poplars near Gout-Rossignol, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, Study of Light in Hawthorne Copse, Waterhall, South Downs, 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, Theatre in Downtown Chicago, 2023 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, Sunlight on the Pines and Aspen in Mueller State Park, 2024 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, Elderflower and Wild Rose Sheepcote Valley, Sussex, 2022 (Larger version of this image opens in a popup).
    Andrew Gifford, Evening Sun with Cow Parsley and Hawthorn, Romney Marsh , 2023
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  • Exhibitions
    • Andrew Gifford

      Andrew Gifford

      New Landscapes - at Cromwell Place 12 - 24 Mar 2024
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    • Andrew Gifford

      Andrew Gifford

      4 Dec 2022 - 27 Jan 2023
      During 2022 Andrew Gifford's new work took him to the fringes of wilderness in Scotland's ancient Caledonian forest, in Ireland and Yorkshire.
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    • Alone With Trees, Part II

      Alone With Trees, Part II

      Andrew Gifford 30 Nov - 12 Dec 2021
      Artist Andrew Gifford's solo exhibition Alone With Trees, Part II that was held at Cromwell Place in December 2021.
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    • Alone with Trees I

      Alone with Trees I

      Andrew Gifford 17 - 29 Nov 2020
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    • A Baltic Journey

      A Baltic Journey

      Andrew Gifford 19 Nov - 20 Dec 2019
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    • India

      India

      Andrew Gifford 6 Mar - 7 Apr 2018
      Collectively, 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...
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    • Paintings of Fès

      Paintings of Fès

      Andrew Gifford 11 Apr - 5 May 2017
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    • Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings

      Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings

      Andrew Gifford 20 - 31 Mar 2017
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    • New York Paintings

      New York Paintings

      Andrew Gifford 8 - 22 May 2015
      Last 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...
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    • Cities of the North East

      Cities of the North East

      Andrew Gifford 17 Oct - 7 Nov 2014
      Andrew Gifford Cities of the North East, John Martin Gallery
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  • Videos
    • Andrew Gifford - New Landscapes

      Andrew Gifford - New Landscapes

      March 4, 2024
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    • Alone With Trees, Part II - The Exhibition

      Alone With Trees, Part II - The Exhibition

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • Alone With Trees Part II

      Alone With Trees Part II

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • A Baltic Journey

      A Baltic Journey

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • Painting in the City

      Painting in the City

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramallah

      Two Cities: Jerusalem and Ramallah

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • London Landscapes

      London Landscapes

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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    • French Paintings

      French Paintings

      Andrew Gifford March 11, 2022
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  • Biography
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    “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.”

    ANDREW GIFFORD. b. 1970, UK

    Selected Solo Exhibitions

    2024                New Landscapes, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place

    2022                 Andrew Gifford, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place

    2021                 Alone with Trees: Part Two, John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place
    2020                 Alone with Trees: Part One  John Martin Gallery at Cromwell Place
    2019                 A Baltic Journey, John Martin Gallery, London
    2018                  India, John Martin Gallery
    2016                  Singapore, Hong Kong & Tokyo: Street Paintings:  

                            John Martin Gallery, Singapore and Hong Kong
    2015                 New York Paintings, Spring Masters, Park Avenue Armory with John                          Martin Gallery

    2014                  Cities of the North East, University of Northumbria, UK
    2013                  Two Cities: Paintings  of Jerusalem and Ramallah, 

                            Al Ma'maal Foundation, Jerusalem and Qattan Foundation, Rammallah,                      in Association with the British Council

                            John Martin Gallery, London
    2013                 Glyndebourne Festival, 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
    2008                 Istanbul Light Series, John Martin Gallery at ArtLondon
    2007                Tyne Bridge Tower Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
    2005                 Paris Paintings 1, John Martin Gallery, London
    2004                Leeds /Bradford Paintings part of ‘Tales of the City’,

                             Leeds City Art Gallery
    2002                Berlin Paintings, John Martin Gallery, London
    2001                 Fontaine Line Paintings, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
    2000                 Paintings from the Sellamoto Studio,  Middlesbrough Art Gallery
    1999                 The Limehouse Series, John Martin Gallery, ArtLondon
    1993                 Artist in Focus, Middlesbrough Art Gallery

     

    Group Exhibitions

    2013                 32 Paintings, Phoenix Art Center, Brighton
    2000                Blue, The New Art Gallery, Walsall
    1996                 The Discerning Eye, selected by Susan Moore, Mall Galleries, London
    1996                 Northern Lights, Fruitmarket Gallery, Edinburgh
    1994                Laing Art Exhibition, University Gallery, Newcastle upon Tyne
    1994                 Fantastic, nine artists, Walsall Museum and Art Gallery, West Midlands

    Collections     

    Middlesbrough Art Gallery

    New Art Gallery, Walsall

    The Duke of Devonshire, Chatsworth

    The Bowerman Charitable Trust

  • Publications
    • A Baltic Journey

      A Baltic Journey

      Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery, 2019
      Paperback, 50 pages
      Publisher: John Martin Gallery
      ISBN: 978-1-9993013-4-7
      Dimensions: 26cm x 20cm
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    • India

      India

      Andrew Gifford John Martin Gallery , 2018
      Paperback , 52 pages
      Publisher: John Martin Gallery
      ISBN: 978-0-9932195-9-7
      Dimensions: 24 x 20cm
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