ANDREW PAINTER

Andrew Painter is an artist unlike any other: an original talent with an instantly recognisable style.  His paintings are joyful, ironic and often surreal observations of life.  "We are all disciplined," he says, "but we all have in us some undisciplined part.  It is this that I like to develop".

Andrew was born in Wolverhampton in 1957, and studied at Goldsmith’s College before setting out to travel the world and develop his own artistic style.  After some years’ teaching, he took up painting full-time, and for the past 20 years has lived and worked in France, where his work has attracted many collectors. 

His work is exhibited in galleries in Paris and elsewhere in France.  He also enjoys showing his work in unexpected venues such as hospitals, and occasionally takes on large-scale commissions, which recently included adorning the exterior of a Galleries Lafayette department store with a 'constellation of large striped socks'. 

He has recently been invited to show at the Florence Biennale, as well as to create the decor for the Nice Jazz Festival.  Enid Lawson Gallery is delighted to have represented his work exclusively in the UK since 1998, with outstanding success.  Andrew Painter's work is a delight.