About
Andy Waite was born in the UK and studied graphic design at West Sussex College of Art and Design, graduating in 1977, LSIAD.
Though travelling occasionally to Scotland, Europe and North Africa, he has lived and worked in the West Sussex town of Arundel, surrounded by the South Downs for almost 40 years. He is represented by several galleries across the UK and holds three open house exhibitions a year. His work is widely collected both nationally and internationally.
He has published three books of his paintings with accompanying poems and one book of his poems illustrated with black and white photographs.
As a young adult emerging from a monotone, restrictive and archaic education into the liberating and vibrant cultural scene of the late 60’s and 70’s, he could finally begin to unfold and explore his innate artistry through music, poetry and painting, the mediums of each consistently influencing the other. Working and playing with the harmonics of colour and their nuanced resonances has been a life-long passion, driven by an irrepressible inner necessity.
If natural forms are the archetypal structures giving his work its grammar, it is his affinity with colour and the many unspoken, poetic languages and realms it conveys, that is central to the intuitive, expressive working out of his compositions. Lively, spontaneous, sometimes paint laden, sometimes dry, wide brushstrokes, linear gestural motifs and colour balancing daubs are added, scraped, scratched and worked into over several weeks. Canvases are often left turned to the wall so as to see them afresh at each reworking. Gradually the alchemy of paint, the unconscious and the imagination, on the now textured and multilayered surface, reveals the hitherto unknown and unseen. The resulting work is only considered complete if the painting, whose contours may have initially grown out of the South Downs or other loved locations, now speaks to the poetry of places that reside in long lost and longed for imaginings.
PREVIOUS EXHIBITIONS
2024
'Passion' Open House - Solo
Arundel Contemporary, 'Beloved Earth' - Solo
2023
'Celestine' Open house - solo
'Unmapped' Arundel Gallery Trail - solo
'Persephone's New Dress' Open house - solo
2022
'Amber and Myrrh' Open House - solo
'Breakfast with the Gods' Arundel Gallery Trail - solo
'An Acre of Light' Arundel Contemporary, Arundel, West Sussex - solo
Art at the Grange, Northington, Hampshire - group
Affordable Art Fair Hampstead with Will's Art Warehouse
2021
Herbert Hedley, Petersfield - group
Arundel Gallery Trail - solo
White Space Art, Totnes - 3 artists
2020
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel - group
2019
The Minster Gallery, Winchester - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail - open house solo
Brighton Art Fair
Axle Arts, Bath - group
2018
Arundel Contemporary, Arundel - solo
Axle Arts, Bath - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Country Living - magazine article
2017
The Minster Gallery, Winchester - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
David Simon Contemporary, Bath - 2 person
White Space Art, Totnes - group
Kellie Miller Arts, Brighton - group
Hampshire Style - magazine article
2016
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
David Simon Contemporary, Bath - 2 person
Highgate Contemporary, London - group
2015
The Minster Gallery, Winchester - solo
Horsham Museum and Art Gallery - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Art Agency
2014
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Gallery Muse, Petersfield - solo
Highgate Contemporary, London - 2 person
Thackeray Gallery, London - group
Cameron Contemporary, Hove - group
2013
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Highgate Contemporary, London - 2 person
The Affordable Art Fair, Hampstead with Highgate Contemporary
The Art Agency, Esher - group
Wet Paint Gallery, Cirencester - group
2012
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery - group
Art at Five, Brighton - group
The Architect’s Gallery, London - group
2011
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
20/21 International Art Fair, Royal College of Art,
Chelsea, with McAllister-Thomas Fine Art
Cambridge Contemporary Art, Cambridge - group
Twenty Twenty, Much Wenlock - group
2010
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair, Brussels with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
Art London, Chelsea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
Ingo Fincke, London - group
Buckenham Galleries, Southwold - group
McAllister-Thomas Fine Art, Godalming - group
Wren Fine Art, Burford - group
Twenty Twenty, Much Wenlock - group
The Jointure Studios, Ditchling - group
The Architect’s Gallery, London - group
Art at Five, Brighton - group
2009
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair Amsterdam with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
Glasgow Art Fair with Art at Five
Art London, Chelsea with The Linda Blackstone Gallery
Artists from the South, Oxmarket, Chichester - group
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford - group
The Joze Show, Kirdford - group
Modern Artists Gallery, Pangbourne - group
The Joy Gallery, Chichester - group
2008
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Edinburgh Art Fair withThe Linda Blackstone Gallery
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
Sarah Wiseman Gallery, Oxford - group
The Joy Gallery, Chichester - group
Webb’s Road Fine Art, London - group
Red Biddy Gallery, Shalford - group
Art at Five, Brighton - group
2007
Flowers Gallery, Emsworth - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery
The Affordable Art Fair, Bristol with HQ Gallery
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
Gallery Top, Rowsley - group
Queen Street Gallery, Emsworth - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
2006
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery
HQ Gallery, Lewes - group
Pond Gallery, London - group
Modern Artists Gallery, Pangbourne - group
Art at Five, Brighton - group
25 Beautiful Homes - magazine article
2005
Galerya, Arundel - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair Battersea with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery
Battersea Contemporary Art Fair
Landmark Art Fair, London
Innocent Fine Art, Bristol - group
World’s End Gallery, London - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
2004
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
Innocent Fine Art, Bristol - group
World’s End Gallery, London - group
HC Dickins, Bloxham - group
Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
2003
Worthing Museum and Art Gallery - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery
Gallery Roenland, Slovika, Norway - group
HC Dickins, Bloxham - group
Country Homes and Interiors - magazine article
2002
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Affordable Art Fair, Battersea with Nicholas Bowlby Gallery
Gallery Roenland, Slovika, Norway - group
The Linda Blackstone Gallery, Rickmansworth - group
The Jointure Studios, Ditchling - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
2001
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Wykeham Gallery, Stockbridge - group
Barney Gallery, Connecticut USA - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
HC Dickins, Bloxham - group
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
2000
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Handel House Gallery, Devizes - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
Barney Gallery, Connecticut USA - group
1999
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
First Site, Bristol and Bath - group
RI, Mall Galleries, London - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
Barney Gallery, Connecticut USA - group
Handel House Gallery, Devizes - group
Country Living - magazine article
1998
Pallant House, Chichester - solo
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
RI, Mall Galleries, London - group
L’Artichaut, Chichester - group
John Noott Gallery, Broadway - group
The Catto Gallery, London - group
Barney Gallery, Connecticut USA - group
1997
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
RI, Mall Galleries, London - group
John Noott Gallery, Broadway - group
The Catto Gallery, London - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
1996
The Catto Gallery, London - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
HC Dickins, Bloxham - group
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
1995
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Anna Mei Chadwick, London - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
HC Dickins, Bloxham - group
Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
The Artist - magazine article
1994
The Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Sunday Times Singer & Friedlander, Mall Galleries, London
Anna Mei Chadwick, London - group
Rye Art Gallery, Rye - group
The Century Gallery, Datchet - group
1993
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
New Ashgate Gallery, Farnham - group
The Alresford Gallery, Alresford - group
Nicholas Bowlby Gallery, Tunbridge Wells - group
1992
Christie’s, London - solo
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Milligan Gallery, Storrington - group
Europa Gallery, Sutton - group
The Pavilion Gallery, Brighton - group
1991
Arundel Gallery Trail - solo
1990
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo
Sunday Times Singer & Friedlander, Mall Galleries, London
1989
Arundel Gallery Trail open house - solo