"Landed" - A series of paintings taking birds from Ukiyo-e artwork and incorporating them into new environments.

Landed

A collection of 4 separate paintings that were worked on simultaneously in two stages. The first stage was where the majority of the painting was done. The second - After the paint / oil had dried I added a few more considered marks to bring the work together.

Make That Make Sense

When first we faced, and touching showed
How well we knew the early moves,
Behind the moonlight and the frost,
The excitement and the gratitude,
There stood how much our meeting owed
To other meetings, other loves.

The decades of a different life
That opened past your inch-close eyes
Belonged to others, lavished, lost;
Nor could I hold you hard enough
To call my years of hunger-strife
Back for your mouth to colonise.

Admitted:  and the pain is real.
But when did love not try to change
The world back to itself—no cost,
No past, no people else at all—
Only what meeting made us feel,
So new, and gentle-sharp, and strange?

 - Philip Larkin

Ruminations

A collection of flower paintings inspired by 19th and 18th Century Japanese Ukiyo-e artwork.

This is Still Life

Heads Up is a collection of abstract heads.

Ｈｅａｄｓ　Ｕｐ

Andrew Weir enjoys creating an interplay between recognisable and abstract forms, the familiar and the foreign. Through the process of painted layers, motifs, collage elements, and text, Weir expresses his fascination in our relationship with communicative systems (language, schematics, symbols, alphabets, etc.) and the variety of potential meaning they contain. The artist's paintings fuse traditional and contemporary method and approach in an impactful, graphic whole.

"In many ways my artwork today is my attempt to find a balance between painting and graphic processes." ~ Andrew Weir