ANDREW HEWKIN.M.A.
Biography.
Andrew Hewkin was born in the Midlands (UK) in 1949.He studied fine art at Stourbridge Art College in 1967; The West of England
School of Art 67/70. He obtained a V class honors degree in painting at The
Royal College of Art in 1973.He won The Burston award for painting in 1972 and
The John Minton traveling Scholarship in
1973.He was a regular exhibitor at The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition in the
70’s and a regular contributor to Vogue Magazine.
He has traveled the world for the last 40 years visiting over 50 countries in his odyssey of visual excitement. He has
exhibited in Los Angeles, New
York, South Africa,
Barbados, Munich,
Zagreb, Vienna
and Marbella. A retrospective at Sandy
Lane, Barbados
in 2001.
He exhibited at Hamilton’s
of Mayfair for 20 years and now exhibits
annually at The Gallery in Cork
Street, Mayfair London. (Since 1999)
He has been commissioned by Thomas Cook,
British Airways, Playboy Magazine, Tiger Tops (Nepal)
Aerolinas Argentinas, The
BBC World Service, Baring securities, New Man (Paris), Royal Westmoreland (Barbados),
Dunhill and Cartier. He also designed the logo for the hologram to be projected
over Tokyo Harbor Peace Concert to commemorate the end of the 1st. Gulf
War.
He is collected by many private collectors and
public collections worldwide (and very widely amongst celebrities)
Quote from June
2009.
‘One’s tenacity remains paramount to achieve a
fine balance between obsession and craftsmanship to attempt to personify a
surreal, believable perfection, otherwise you’re just barking at the moon.’
Collectors'
Quotes
'He is probably
the most exciting artist working out of the UK today; he is fearless'
(Bob Monkhouse)
'His talent is a
constant delight, the discovery was superb.'
(Susan George)
'He is able to
capture a moment and make it surreal and make it unmistakeably his.'
(HRH Princess Margaret)
'His work is
full of colour, tenderness and discretion in a style of unaffected simplicity
and a tendency towards shy abstraction with a demure sensuality and
extraordinary faithful reflection of thoughts'
(Sir Peter Ustinov)
'What a find,
(he was a neighbour in London and I had to go to
Los Angeles to
find him!)'
(Sir Michael Caine)
'Hewkin reveals that he is one of the few genuine surrealist
painters working in England
today.'
(The Daily Telegraph)
BIOGRAPHY
One Man
Show
1973
Trafford Gallery, Mayfair, London- Paintings of Greece and Turkey
1974 Asset
Gallery, London- Paintings of the Greek Islands
1975 Amolfini Gallery, Bristol -
Paintings of Africa
1976 57th Street Gallery, New
York - Paintings
of Mustique
1980 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Paintings of America
1980 The Madison gallery, Los
Angeles - 'The British at play'
1981 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Paintings of the Hawaiian
Islands
1982 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Jamaica
1983 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Provence and the Cote d'Azur
1984 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Sri Lanca and The Maldives
1985 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Italy
and The Gambia
1986 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Acapulco and Venice
1987 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - China
and The Orient
1988 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Egypt
1989 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Brazil
1990 Hamiltons Mayfair, London
- The British at Play (In association with British Airways)
1991 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Los
Angeles
1991 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Japan
and Vietnam
1992 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - India
and Nepal
1993 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - The Lost Kingdoms of the Maya - El Salvador, Belize,
Mexico and Guatemala
1994 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Croatia
- Landmark of Optimism
1994 Vienna - Croatia
- Landmark of Optimism
1994 Zagreb - Croatia
- Landmark of Optimism
1994 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - Croatia
- Landmark of Optimism
1995 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - The Spice Islands
1996 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - South
Africa
1997 Hamiltons Mayfair, London - An Introspective
Journey
1998 Art
Connoisseur, London- Cuba
1999 The
Cork Street Gallery, London-
Argentina
2000 Royal Westmoreland, Barbados - Retrospective
2000 The
Cork Street Gallery, London - Quintessential Caribbean
2001 The
Cork Street Gallery, London - Tuscany
2002 Sugar Hill, Barbados
- Beautiful Barbados
2003 Sandy
Lane, Barbados - 30 Years Painting The World
2004 The
Cork Street Gallery, London - Spain
2004 Hotel
Puente Romano, Marbella,
Spain - Spain
2004 The Cork
Street Gallery, , London
- Venice
2005 Hotel
Las Dunas, Marbella,
Spain - Venice
& Morocco
2005 The
Cork Street Gallery, London - Morocco
GROUP
SHOWS
1970 Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition UK
1971
Chichester Arts Festival UK
1972 Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition UK
1973 Royal Academy
Summer Exhibition UK
PRIZES
1972 Burston Award for Painting
1973 John
Minton Travelling Scholarship
BOOKS
1987 Songs
to the Bedroom Walls with Susan George
1991
Limited Edition Vietnamese Sketchbook