Andy Hill

My work as a painter has taken me on a path of unfolding creative discoveries, from meticulous representation to joyful abstraction. Inspired by the Wealden British countryside where I live, my artworks reveal a shift in focus from the natural world outside to the nature of my own being. Today, I paint not directly from observation or imagination, but from a kind of arousal - a sense that something wants to be born.

When I am able to work aligned with the moment-to-moment dictates from within, I feel something profound and unfathomable expressing itself through me. Finding myself in that zone is perhaps the biggest challenge.

I was born in Brighton during the sixties and was fortunate to have grown up in a creatively stimulating atmosphere that fed my artistic interests from an early age. As an adolescent I also had a number of spiritually transformative experiences that altered my worldview and deepened my perspective on life.

Graduating with a BA (Honours) Degree, I began my professional career first as an illustrator and then as a landscape painter working primarily in oils. After winning the Sussex Open Visitors’ Award at Brighton Museum and Art Gallery, I relocated to the countryside, driven by a love for nature and fascina...

Brighton Polytechnic Faculty of Art, Foundation Course, 1982

Exeter College of Art & Design, Illustration & Graphic Design BA (Honours) Degree, 1984