WOOD, ANDY, RBA, RI (English, b. 1947) "Two Deck Chairs III." Signed, L.R. Acrylic painting on board, 5½" x 8" (sight); 15" x 16½" (framed). Exhibited: Royal Society of British Artists at the Mall Galleries, London. Price Category: B

Andy Wood is a successful contemporary artist working in oil, acrylic, and watercolor. Born in Porlock, Somerset, he grew up in Surrey. He attended Croyden College of Art in 1965-66, then Newport College of Art, 1967-70, gaining his art and design diploma. Between 1970 and 1978 Wood did many odd jobs to support his part-time painting, eventually becoming a full time artist in 1977. In 1996 he opened his own gallery in Lyme Regis. In 2002 he moved to Rye in East Sussex. He became an Associate of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) in 1980 and a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolours (RI) in 1981. He has participated in numerous group and solo exhibitions in the U.K. and the U.S. His subjects typically are detailed figurative work, landscape, still life, and some portraits. He describes his work as representational and highly detailed in a photo-realist style. Much of his subject matter is taken from his local area; the beach and sea feature prominently. He seems to favor man-made landscape rather than nature in the raw.

Art in the Afternoon, L.L.C.
P.O. Box 620066
Middleton, WI 53562
608-469-2994; 608-836-6454
info@artintheafternoon.net