Andy Eccleshall Artist Statement

I have been working as a professional artist in various forms for more than 25 years. My passion for painting was all consuming in my younger years; I equated it to an itch that I couldn’t scratch. I was driven to paint. My head was full of images.

As I entered the “workforce” I tailored my work to suit certain commercial requirements, always seeking out new markets and striving to fulfill my clients’ needs. All the while I continued producing “my own work” which was commercially not as accessible but satisfied a desire within me to make real the images that constantly ran through my mind.

I have been a full time muralist for 13 years. My business has been a success and I am very proud of the stability it has brought me and my family. Over the last thirteen years I have reduced my “own work” to a minimum in a favor of the murals, through financial necessity.

I have had a revelation. A reawakening of the muse that once danced within me so energetically. It has taken me a long time to reach the point at which I am ready to freely produce the work which still courses through my mind. For a long time I felt the need to put a series of requirements on the work that I so wanted to produce. It had to be worthy of the precious time I had to produce it. It had to make a great statement. I realized that I was putting myself in the role of my own client. I realize now that I have no-one I have to satisfy. I need only to produce. The images in my mind are there for a reason. Their creation in my mind is a result of some subconscious thought process or obscure concept. To assign a specific meaning to them before they become reality is ridiculous and constricting. Their meaning will become clear, just as a child grows and reveals its true nature in time. It is not born with a label and neither is my art. I wait, with you, with excitement, to discover the direction that the journey will take.



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