Biography

ANDREW HEWKIN.M.A.

Andrew Hewkin has travelled the world for the last forty years to paint over fifty seven countries from The Americas,including
The Islands of Hawaii and Cuba ;South America including, Mexico, Guatamala, El Salvador, Honduras,Belize and The Amazon
;and most of the West Indies ,The Middle East from Egypt to The Lebanon, Syria ,Turkey all of Europe and The Greek Islands .
The Far East including India,Nepal ,Indonesia, Thailand,China ,Sri Lanka,The Maldives and Vietnam;The North, East,West and South Africa
including the islands of Lamu, Zanzibar and Maritius.

He has lived in the South of France, Jamaica and Mustique where he resided for three years. He is collected worldwide by mainly private collectors and collections and has previously been commissioned by Baring securities, Dunhill International,Cartier, British Airways,The BBC, Playboy magazine, Thomas Cook, designed the holographic logo for the end of the 1st gulf war concert to be beamed over Tokyo harbour 1991, Gibson Guitars, (to paint
a giant 10 foot Les Paul guitar for Brian May of Queen), and SG Gibson for The Automatic,for and on behalf of The Prince's Trust. He has exhibited in London every year from 1974, more recently in Munich, Zagreb, Vienna, Marbella, South of France, Cape Town
and regularly in Barbados including a retrospective at Sandy Lane in 2001.

This year Andrew has been working in Cuba on a commission for ChildLine Rocks (of which, he is the cultural attache) to paint a picture to raise money for the charity. Whilst there, he additionally worked on paintings towards his new collection. He has also been working in Majorca on a sculpture commission, together with a series of pictures of the island, which again will add to the new collection. Furthermore, he plans to travel in order to complete his 'Heaven on Earth' show which will now open in London on November 5th 2012; paintings will also include far off places such as Indonesia (which he has plans to visit later this year). Andrew is currently putting the finishing touches to his book 'Every picture Tells a Story' to coincide with the opening.

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