Andrew Blythe 09
Brain Storm
presented by Toi Ora Live Art Trust
19th - 30th May, 2009
Andrew Blythe is a gifted self-taught artist whose arresting, rhythmic paintings possess a raw and deeply moving beauty. Over the last few years this gifted artist’s practice has been prodigious.
A turbulent adolescence saw Andrew in and out of hospital and living hard in Auckland. During this time he would draw with pencil and Indian ink, as a cathartic expression of his experiences and depiction of the downtrodden side of life.
Andrew is not inclined to label or title his paintings, but rather for them to be seen as an ongoing dialogue of “free expression and abstract figurative composition, to be enjoyed..….I am an empty vessel when I paint”.
