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Enquire about Andrew Hood Andrew Hood is a landscape and figurative based painter, he makes several trips abroad each year to gather reference for his painting. Recent journeys have taken him to Tuscany, the South of France, Morocco and Croatia. Whilst Andrew Hood enjoys working abroad he often looks for beauty within our own diverse and engaging landscape from the Scottish Highlands to the rugged Cornish coastline. |
ANDREW HOOD BIOGRAPHY
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STATEMENT Andrew Hood is a Bristol based artist whose work can be found in galleries through out the U.K. and abroad. He was brought up in Edinburgh until his family moved to Manchester where he worked as a graphic designer. He then returned to fulltime education to study illustration at John Moores University Liverpool where he won the Liverpool Life Painting Open and Gorstella award for painting. Since graduating he has worked mainly as a fine artist selling work throughout the United Kingdom and abroad. His paintings have been featured in the WH Smiths British artists greetings cards range and more recently have become available as limited fine art prints published by Osborne Allen. Andrew Hood has also received several corporate commissions including the BBC, where his work was featured on the set of Casualty, Hollyoaks on Channel 4 and Wetherspoons plc. Andrew Hood has held two very successful one man shows at the Washington Gallery, Cardiff and has regularly been selected for the RWA autumn show in Bristol and more recently the SWA open. He is a regular exhibitor at the Affordable Art Fair and Battersea Contemporary Art Fair. Andrew Hood sources much of his reference material abroad, most recently in morocco on a journey that took him from Tangier to Marrakech and to the west coast. He is fascinated by the people and their culture and is currently working on several paintings based on his experiences there. EDUCATION Liverpool John Moores University 1992-1995 BA Hons - Illustration GROUP EXHIBITIONS Jamaica Street Studios Open 1999-2004 SOLO EXHIBITIONS Washington Gallery - Cardiff Nov 2002/03
ART FAIRS Battersea Art Fair 2002/03/04 AWARDS Liverpool Life Painting Competition, 1st Prize
Stockport College of Higher Education 1991-1992 Foundation in Art & Design
Mid-Cheshire College of Art & Design 1980-1981Pre-foundation
Wilmslow Grammar School 1975-1980
Graduate Training Course 1996-1997
RWA Autumn Show 2000/02/03
Gorstella Gallery, Chester 1996/98/04
Richmond Hill Gallery, London 1997/98
South West Academy 2003
Beaux Arts Bath 2004
Sarah Wiseman Gallery 2004
Rooksmoor Gallery - Bath June 1999
Gorstella Gallery - Chester May 2004
Affordable Art Fair 2002/03/04
Art London 2004
Art Ireland 2004
Gorstella Award for Painting
Artists Grant (ACID Fund