My art practice encompasses a wide variety of media but more often takes the form of painting and mono printing. I am drawn to the idiosyncrasies that surround us, my work questions how we make sense of these and relate to them in a wider social context. The main themes throughout my work focus on containment, boundaries and interrelationships.
In my paintings I will often work with earth and mineral pigments which I apply with coffee stirrers and bank cards, essential consumerist commodities of modern culture. The media and application seem to contradict one another which interrelate on the canvas, where I look to counterbalance a contemporary predicament, the over consumption of Earth’s resources to satisfy humans needs. In this sense I feel my work reflects an existential struggle through abstraction.
As an art therapist the visual aspect of my practice is key to responding to clients; through the artwork they make, the artwork I might make in response and how I work with visual clues in their communication between myself (the therapist) and their art.
T.A. 2024
B.A. (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice from Central Saint Martins Art College, 2000
M.A. in Art Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University, 2008
co-founder of COATS (Community Outdoor Art Therapy Service) www.outdoorarttherapy.org.uk
and Artist's collective Winnicott Wednesdays www.winnicottwednesdays.weebly.com
Tanya Andrew lives and works in London.
In my paintings I will often work with earth and mineral pigments which I apply with coffee stirrers and bank cards, essential consumerist commodities of modern culture. The media and application seem to contradict one another which interrelate on the canvas, where I look to counterbalance a contemporary predicament, the over consumption of Earth’s resources to satisfy humans needs. In this sense I feel my work reflects an existential struggle through abstraction.
As an art therapist the visual aspect of my practice is key to responding to clients; through the artwork they make, the artwork I might make in response and how I work with visual clues in their communication between myself (the therapist) and their art.
T.A. 2024
B.A. (hons) in Critical Fine Art Practice from Central Saint Martins Art College, 2000
M.A. in Art Psychotherapy from Goldsmiths University, 2008
co-founder of COATS (Community Outdoor Art Therapy Service) www.outdoorarttherapy.org.uk
and Artist's collective Winnicott Wednesdays www.winnicottwednesdays.weebly.com
Tanya Andrew lives and works in London.