Michael Andrews

Marlborough Fine Art, London, 1980

The work is on wove paper which appears to have been float-mounted onto the backboard. The sheet undulates across the surface and there are some slight wrinkles in the upper right quadrant but otherwise the sheet is in good overall condition. The surface appears to be in good overall condition. Held under glass and within a cream mount in a simple gilded frame. Please telephone the department on 020 7293 5381 if you have any questions regarding the present work.
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From the early 1970s, the reflective and atmospheric qualities of water had become increasingly interesting to Andrews, and by the later years of that decade it was a subject that formed the main focus of a number of paintings. Watercolour was to prove a perfect means with which to attempt to render these effects, and in the present work, Andrews' mastery of this most fickle of media is clear, the mists, coldness and quiet of a winter day being evoked with a wonderful economy of detail.

Painted at Geldeston in Norfolk, to where Andrews had moved in 1977.