Biography

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Andrew was educated at Whitgift Middle School in Croydon England. At the age of ten he won a BBC competition with a watercolour, this was a formative moment in his life as from there he later went to Croydon School of Art where for four years he studied painting, sculpture, lithography and the essential life drawing

At the age of twenty-two he started a career in film, stage and television set design. He worked on many films, designed six stage sets (three of these in the west end) but his main career was in television. During this period he became Head of Design for the then London Weekend Television Company at which time he won the Royal Television Society award for set design and also a BAFTA nomination for drama design During this time he continued to paint and draw.

He taught drawing at Kingston University and also lectured on television set design Andrew is a member of the Chelsea Arts Club and has exhibited both there and at the Chelsea Arts Society. More recently he has had a very successful exhibition at the Quay Arts Gallery on the Isle of Wight where he has a studio. He has also won prizes for three years running in the annual Island landscape competition and has had four paintings published in a prestigious book of Island painters.