About AvalonArt.com and Andy Burgess

AVALONART.COM

Avalonart.com is a new venture presenting high quality artwork with a particular preference for vintage and retro imagery. Based on the painting, collage and photography of Andy Burgess, Avalonart.com offers you a wide selection of fine art prints, photographs and greeting cards. In the coming months we hope to extend our range of products to other gifts such as tote bags, T-shirts, mugs and fridge magnets.

Avalonart.com, the brainchild of Andy and his brother Harvey, is all about producing art that is fun, accessible and affordable, and also just a little bit different!. In the coming months we hope to represent other artists and designers with a similar aesthetic and a love of retro and vintage imagery and to offer them a showcase to exhibit and sell their work.

ANDY BURGESS

Andy Burgess is a 39-year-old Londoner who currently spends a sizeable chunk of time each year in Tucson, Arizona, where his brother Harvey lives. Andy is a graduate of Byam Shaw School of Art in London and, over the last 12 years, has achieved recognition as an accomplished cityscape and urban scenes painter. He has enjoyed several solo exhibitions, and participated in many group exhibitions and art fares across Europe and the United States. Andy and his work have been featured in international art magazines such as Modern Painters and Art Review and in the national British press.

Andy is interested in the city, as a vibrant place of culture and creativity and as a repository of dreams and ambitions. He loves the texture of the city, the clash of old and new and the visual poetry we see all around us: street signs, shop awnings, store fronts and moving cars. In his paintings, photographs and collage he explores the city as a place of narrative, both cinematic and graphic, drawing on the traditions of Impressionism, Pop Art, graphic and comic book art. He is particularly interested in the fading and crumbling textures of the city, its walls and doorways, doorbells and mailboxes, and street signs as a poetic metaphor for the neglected, the disappearing and the lost.

Much of the imagery for Avalonart.com comes from Andy’s extensive collection of vintage ephemera which he has been collecting and using to make artwork for many years. Old stamps and matchbooks, tickets and letters, all provide a rich cultural and textural source for making exciting imagery.

» Andy Burgess: Why I Paint - from the artist's perspective