“It’s lovely if others enjoy seeing the results, but that’s not really my motivation for making art. Rather, I look at whatever is in front of me-whether it is a person, landscape, still life-and try to work out what it is I am really experiencing,” he says. “It is not about looking for ‘nice’ things that I would like to make a ‘pleasant picture’ of. “That does not mean, at all, that it is without stress or concerns, but the process of making an image is always a challenge with which to get to grips.”ĭescribed by KAB Gallery as an “expressive painter”, Andy says he approaches his work in an honest, spontaneous manner. The creative practice of art-making, for me anyway, is totally absorbing,” he continues.
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Reflecting on his own childhood, Andy says, “I loved painting and drawing from being a little kid-I never thought of doing anything else. These days, when he’s not teaching, Andy spends half of his week creating artworks and is represented at the KAB Gallery in Terrigal (Central Coast) and Pymble (Sydney). He has also exhibited his work extensively throughout the UK, including at the Royal Academy Summer Show, before emigrating to Australia. He then lectured in Art History and Painting & Drawing at tertiary colleges. Having studied visual arts extensively, Andy spent the first 32 years of his life in the UK, where he went to university and did further postgraduate study in visual arts.
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“I am.sharing my passion and understanding of creative art practice with these young hearts and minds.” “This is something I hadn’t really anticipated, but I am finding tremendously rewarding-both spiritually and artistically,” he explains. For the past four years, he has also been teaching part-time at the Central Coast Adventist School, a primary grade school. With experience painting everything from portraits to abstract expressionism, Andy usually creates artworks from his home studio in Saratoga, NSW, but says he also likes to get out and about to paint “Plein air” landscapes.
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Having lectured in Visual Arts at Avondale University for 25 years, and with an internationally acclaimed body of work spanning decades, Andy Collis (Ph.D.) is a fine artist and art academic who is well-loved by the Adventist community both in Australia and beyond.