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Simon Andrew has developed a recollective approach to landscape painting. Though he has constantly engaged with a tradition of romantic realism, somewhat at odds with the prevailing mainstream, his work has paradoxically been influenced by contemporary concerns.
Painting from an emotionally imbued memory of place, sometimes using photographs as aids, his work is about displacement and belonging. His work is in effect a remembrance of an event that in retrospect seems more relevant. Sometimes seen through rose tinted glasses, other times through a haunted eye. There is a poignant realization (in the true sense of the word) of memory, a distilling process that has already succumbed to time and distance. His work is a disjointed conversation with time and place, but after the fact, in an attempt to find a space in which to belong.
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