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Andrew Hillary
I began painting over thirty years ago and exhibited regularly in a London gallery. This was followed by a long gap as I went and worked in different parts of the media and different parts of the world including Germany and the Middle East. During this time I basically never picked up a brush and it was as a culmination of the last twenty four years life experience that created a need to start painting again.
I am a photographer as well as an artist and see both activities as different notes on the same scale. The photographs mingle with both drawing and paintings, one informs the other, the act of taking photograph is filled with a multitude of decisions, it is the same with painting, and the difference is that the process is more protracted.
Every subject under the sky is open to interpretation and I tend to point and photograph a range of different things, places and people. I like to create literal and representative pictures; it is the subversion from making things look as though they should be familiar, when in actuality they are not. Things are rarely what they seem. I am not interested in sequences only contrasts and as an artist I behave like an image junkie, always with one eye on the next image, impatient to move on.