Heaven on Earth

Following my amazing voyage throughout The Indonesian Archipelago in September 2011, I was invited for a commission to board The 'Silolona'. This massive 164' wooded Phinisi schooner with billowing black sails was the vessel of The Spice Island traders whose cargoes included precious nutmeg and cloves plus other exotic spices only found in the vast Indonesian Archipelago in centuries past.
'Silolona' was hand crafted by traditional boat builders in the mangrove swamps on the South Eastern tip of Borneo and launched in 2004 as a charter boat to explore the remote corners of South East Asia.

I put together a sketchbook of watercolours from these travels (which I shall continue to add to in 2012) to produce a book suitable for reproduction (to be printed in Jakarta) as a limited edition. It will be hand made-signed, numbered and dated, and printed on watercolour paper emulating a sketchbook I produced in 1991 in Vietnam.

The original paintings will be exhibited in the spring of 2012 at a venue, as yet to be confirmed. They will also form a large part of my annual exhibition at 'The Gallery', Cork Street, in Mayfair, London, opening November 2012. This is designed to, hopefully, promote The Indonesian Archipelago and 'Silolona' together with the colaboration and help of 'The Ultimate Travel Company' and 'Private Label', and of course......'SILOLONA'.

See Andrew's life size palm tree sculpture commission.