Andrew Harrison

I have been mark-making for many years, inspired by three-dimensional sculptural and natural forms. A jumping off point has often been a conversation with formal experiments of people like Braque and Brancusi - but also there has been the influence of colourists, from Heron and Matisse. I have recently been struck by Sean Scully's idea of seeking 'structure without coercion'. I am fascinated by the way in which you cannot have form without tension.

'I sketch and experiment as a way of finding out, trying different things, seeming to repeat myself, so that things build and overlap, rubbing out and changing, leaving the ghosts of earlier lines.'

I am interested in the idea of a 'studio-state-of-mind' - observational, provisional, looking out of the corner of the eye as well as gazing, intent.

Whenever I am making art, I wonder 'can we not think of the aim of life as being simply to see?'

I work intuitively, and have found that I need to proliferate images in order to find where they are going.

Variously education in UK and overseas. Art education through short courses and time spent as apprentice to masters of their craft.

Work is on exhibition at 'Gallery 35' in Birmingham, UK. Collectors and art lovers welcome by appointment. To learn more, contact andrew@andrewharrison-images.co.uk