Don’t miss the incredible work of Andrew Plewes now showing at The Gallery at Artisan Square. Plewes is a master colourist and his images leap off the canvas with their vibrancy.
Originally from Toronto, Plewes is a second generation graduate of the Ontario College of Art. Twenty years ago, after a three month mountaineering course, he moved to Vancouver to pursue his love of life outdoors. Eventually, he found his dream lot on Josephine Lake on Bowen Island and built a house.
Using many forms of media and an equal number of diverse styles, Plewes has been working as an illustrator for over 25 years. His work appears in children’s books, readers, magazines and on product packaging.
Plewes’s paintings are inspired by the impressionists, the Group of Seven, classic children’s book illustrators and art nouveau poster artists. He paints in acrylic and aspires to marry the blatant blobs and smears of paint with the air and life of the subject. He is also experimenting with abstraction, evoking his mother’s quilt work and his father’s 1950’s art school industrial design projects.
“Patches of Colour” represents work from both his impressionist and abstract portfolios and can be viewed at The Gallery until Monday 13 October.
