Andrew Squire 2013

Sheep Oil on board 12 x 12 inches Soay Sheep Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches (front cover)

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ANDREW SQUIRE

Postcard for Icarus Oil on board 20 x 24 inches

ANDREW SQUIRE 4th – 22nd December 2013 15 New Cavendish Street, London. W1G 9UB Tel: +44 (0)20 7935 3595 enquiries@thompsonsgallery.co.uk www.thompsonsgallery.com

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ANDREW SQUIRE Thompson’s Gallery London is delighted to announce a new solo exhibition by Andrew Squire. The gallery has a well established relationship with the artist and we are excited to be presenting his latest paintings.

A recurrent theme of Andrew Squire’s work has been an artistic enquiry into the boundaries of the tangible world and that which lies beyond.

Squire uses a visual language of isolated iconic imagery, neatly positioned within brightly painted abstracted backgrounds that hint at the subject’s origin. His enigmatic icons of birds, beasts and human myth become thoughtful and disarming reflections on what links us and separates us as a species, underpinned by a deeply felt environmental concern.

Andrew Squire’s new collection of work combines intensely coloured images with calmer, more subdued pieces. Squire, who is known for painting environments through bold, expressive colours, shows oriental influences in his new body of work. Elegant simplicity and the occasional introduction of calligraphic text mark his latest output.

Squire’s paintings are deceptively simple and have eclectic roots. Not only do they draw on his own environmental beliefs, they also reflect the artist’s personal experiences and memories gained whilst travelling and exhibiting throughout the world - with residencies in Iceland, Canada and Nepal to name a few. These experiences have fed into his development of a wide-ranging painterly language that reflects the complexity of human perceptions. Drawing variously on the elemental space and light of Western Scotland, as well as the inner landscape of the subconscious, Squire’s characteristically minimalistic compositions continue to use accessible, contemporary images to evoke their symbolic language.

Sky Door Oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches

Beautifully composed and making confident use of the visual silence of empty space, there is a recurring contemplative quality and stillness in the work which reaches past the here and now to something beyond.

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Minotaur Oil on board 12 x 12 inches (above) Noah Oil on board 20 x 24 inches

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Reflecting Tiger Oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches (above) Owl Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches

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Owl with Window Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches

Brigid's Oystercatcher Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches (above)

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Rut Oil on board 24 x 20 inches

Loch Eil Sheep Oil on board 24 x 20 inches

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Unicorn Oil on board 12 x 12 inches

Tawny Owl Oil on canvas 8 x 8 inches Jacob's Ladder Oil on board 36 x 48 inches (right)

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Wee Red Car Oil on canvas 12 x 12 inches Owl with Lantern Oil on canvas 20 x 20 inches (right)

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Nature isn't Cruel Oil on board 20 x 24 inches

Backwater Diptych Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches

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Lochaber Toucan Oil on board 20 x 24 inches

Panopticon Oil on board 36 x 48 inches

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Biodiversity Oil on board 22 x 24 inches Sound of Islay Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches (right)

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Tiger at Low Tide Oil on canvas 24 x 20 inches Gulvain Oil on board 24 x 20 inches

Bittern Oil on canvas 20 x 24 inches

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Water Level Oil on board 36 x 36 inches

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