After a break of almost 5 years, we couldn’t be more delighted to be hosting Andrew Talbot’s 9th solo exhibition here at Beckstones Art Gallery. Andrew has always been one of our most exciting and innovative artists and his remarkable paintings have delighted us since he first started exhibiting here in 2002.
For this latest exhibition Andrew has created 15 superb new oil paintings featuring a remarkably diverse range of subjects and, as gallery owners, we are always in awe of the limitless depths of Andrew’s imagination and his unique inspiration for a painting. Andrew possesses a rare ability to turn the ordinary into the extraordinary and over the years compositions have ranged from the classic, the romantic, the quirky and the iconic to the brilliantly eccentric. His oil paintings are always so skilfully executed incorporating a subtle yet brilliant use of light and expert application of rich colours that they are impossible to forget and, for his army of collectors, quite impossible to resist.
Andrew was born into a farming family in 1972 and grew up in the Ribble Valley. He started painting at the age of 13 and, inspired by such great artists as Forbes, Caravaggio, Ingres and William Waterhouse, he went on to graduate from Loughborough College of Art with a BA in Fine Art (Painting). After approaching Beckstones in 2002, every painting delivered to the gallery was sold straight away and Andrew has never looked back with a succession of sell out exhibitions and a multitude of awards.
Married to Susie and with two adult children Grace and Tom, Andrew divides his time between his native Lancashire and a bolthole in Southern France.