Andrew Hird

Andrew Hird is an award winning contemporary figurative painter of landscapes, cities and

the English coast. All his work is from personal experience based on location sketches in

pencil or paint. These “plein air” studies provide the working material for studio paintings,

always referring back to the feeling of standing in the environment. Often he will return to

favourite locations many times, recording the subject over changing seasons and times of

day.

His studio paintings are the considered result of these observational studies and evolve over days or weeks to bring together light, line and perspective that are distinctive elementsof Andrew’s work. His plein air studies are often loose and freely painted, aiming to capture a light effect or atmosphere quickly before the moment is lost. He paints to share his personal world and hopefully transmit some of the pleasure he finds in recording it.

Andrew has exhibited at the Mall Galleries, Chelsea Art Society, Patchings Festival,

Broadway Arts Festival, Royal Society of Marine Artists, Royal Institute of Oil Painters and

the ING Discerning Eye. He won the Royal Institute of Oil Painters “Paint Live” competition

in 2015, The Artist Purchase Prize, Great Art Award and Peoples’ Choice Award at

Patchings, the Monkton Arts Prize in 2021, and the Frank Herring award at the ROI

exhibition in 2022. He was selected to compete as a featured artist in Sky Arts Landscape

Artist of The Year 2019 at Gateshead Millennium Bridge, and his painting was chosen by the Royal Navy for their permanent collection at HMS Calliope. Andrew’s work is becoming

increasingly popular with pieces in collections around the UK, Europe, the USA and Canada, and the Far East.

Commissions are available please contact Seaview Art Gallery to arrange.