Based in Royal Tunbridge Wells, Andrew James is a highly sought after Artist, who has worked on many prestigious commissions of public figures. Wonderfully passionate, Andrew is renown for capturing incredible likeness and energy of his subjects through his sumptuously rigorous and painterly approach. You can discover more about Andrew at the NEAC (New English Art Club) and RP (Royal Society of Portrait Painter) websites.

I work from photographs, life and imagination: All are equal as the work’s outcome is all that matters. I add and subtract continuously until a richness of illusion and surface is achieved, as well as psychological depth.

Using primarily oil paint, I work with broad, very direct, freely-applied gestural marks, through to finely modulated colour relationships. Seeking a wide spectrum of painterly qualities to bring likeness, life and an energised density, to every subject.