
Isle of Wight Guest Artist
Andrew Drummond
Andrew was born in Croydon for his sins and after a fractured scholastic career, he went to Croydon School of Art for four years, with a break in the middle for National Service. He studied painting, sculpture, life drawing and lithography for the first three years and then a year studying interior design. On the basis of this, he made a career in the theatre film and television industry. Andrew has been awarded a BAFTA nomination for the set design of the Dennis Potter drama Blade on the Feather, the Royal Television Society Award for Set Design and the French Minerve award. He ultimately became Head of Design for London Weekend Television, during which he drew and painted continuously. Andrew comes from an artistic family. His father was a much collected watercolourist who exhibited at the Royal Academy and his daughter gained an MA for Installation at the Slade. Andrew has had exhibitions in Newcastle Australia and at Quay Arts on the Isle of Wight amongst others. He now paints full time and divides his time between the Island, where he has a studio, and London, where he has his clubs. He sometimes paints still lifes or portraits and sometimes abstracts but his main love is for landscapes, particularly with birds or animals. In this, he follows his father, whose passion was also for woodland and the interplay of light with leaves and trees.