Born in Warwickshire in 1969, I have been surrounded by art from an early age – my mother is a ceramicist and my father is a well-respected London-based painter.
I studied at Bournville School of Art before graduating with a BA honours degree from Wimbledon School of Art in 1991, later winning a placement as a resident artist at the Rijksakademie in Amsterdam.
I’ve always loved the history of art and architecture, and have over the years worked in many old buildings seeped in history, Amsterdam being no exception. My time living back in London required my practical skills in property maintenance, and I found this intimacy with ‘lived in’ spaces ignite my focus as an artist to paint buildings. I have taken much inspiration from painters such as Edward Hopper, Giorgio Morandi and David Prentice as well as the photography of David Goldblatt, Andreas Gursky and Russell Watkins.

In the last few years however I have returned to drawing and painting from nature. I grew up in the leafy suburbs of the Lickey Hills near Birmingham, once a haunt to the young Tolkien. I was always found in the woods here during weekends as a child.

My current home, the New Forest, is very much a romantic landscape, it provides at least an ‘idea’ of wilderness, of time left aside. The trees and woodland around here are a constant source of shape, colour and texture. A real sensory feast.

My work can be found in public and private collections not only in the UK, but in the USA, Ireland, Hong Kong, Japan and the Netherlands. I have appeared as a heat finalist in the Sky Arts programme Landscape Artist of The Year in 2018 and 2019.

I divide my time between rural Northamptonshire and Lymington in Hampshire. I am a tutor to a small group of students, and am a qualified picture framer (Guild Certified Framer). You can follow me on instagram @hallidayfineart and on facebook with my page Andrew Halliday Fine Art, where I regularly post information on developing work.