Andrew Hillhouse

Local Contemporary Art Prize 2025 – Finalist

Image courtesy of the artist

Andrew Hillhouse | Deep Forest | 2024 | acrylic on canvas | 92 x 155cm (framed)

The intention of my work is to evoke an emotional response or a memory. The painting is an abstract colour field but is also suggestive of a scene, a landscape or a fragment of a story. I walk in the forest most days, early morning, in most weather conditions. Deep Forest is a compilation of many years of scenes from memory recalled and imagined or partially remembered and sometimes forgotten. There is a visual tension between the surface of the painting, of thick textural paint applied in a rhythmic pattern in layers and the suggested image.