The son of a potter, Simon S. Andrews was raised in the Okanagan valley, educated in northern Alberta, and worked for many years in the video game industry before settling in Vancouver, British Columbia in 2002.  Finding the work enjoyable, but office life increasingly unbearable, he gave up his career to learn fine art.  In late 2007 he began oil painting, and found a natural affinity with the medium.  By early 2008 he was invited to display a series of small works in a small Vancouver gallery.  Encouraged by the positive reception to his early work, he began to study painting full-time.  
He continues to work and live in Vancouver with his wife, Juliette.

For the last 2 years I was interested in painting the black figure very powerfully against nature- not with nature. I thought, "The body is superior". I did that while I was doing some basic genre painting - mainly still life and landscapes. But I was not so satisfied with just nature as I was painting it. With the large works, inside my head I had a battle between a sort of emotional painting and something more rational, intellectual. By the end of 2009 reason was lost out and I ended the series.

My hope for 2010 is to find ways to satisfy these sorts of conflicts with new approaches.

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