Andrew Tyler

Andrew Tyler is an artist and singer/songwriter born in Pershore. (1959). His award- winning, yet uncompromising graphic style explores the human condition; its transience, its beauty, its darkness and light.
Andrew Tyler has built up a vast vocabulary of images. There is always a strong allegorical situation going on, in his pictures, an array of objects, sometimes discordant, placed in the image for what ever Andrew Tyler thought pertinent, maybe for his own pleasure. He seems also inspired by placing shadows, think of Italian surrealist De Chirico, who also painted the bizarre, but whose paintings were far more sparten compared to the richness and visual congestion of Andrew Tyler’s work. Also we might think of Paula Rego, or perhaps a Tim Burton film or the crazy world of Terry Gilliam. Andrew Tyler summons up his own quirky surreal world. Even the titles of his works give a lot away about his mind “clean up in dodge city” “man overboard (he likes “nautical images”) “Rocket in a bucket” (a surrealist joke, the kind Magritte might have told) 'Fantascape No1' which has a cartoonist quality to it, a lush green landscape, with a train track running through and cows scattered about. “Swords at dawn" more imagery of weaponry, mix...

BA Cheltenham College of Arts

MA Chelsea School of Art

The Royal Academy of Arts
Bradford British International Print Biennale Angela Flowers Gallery
Wrexham Print International
Cheltenham Gallery
The Kowalsky Gallery
Number 8
Worcester Arts Workshop
Worcester Museum and Art Gallery

Tel. 07802 317801 artisticandy@googlemail.com