Andrew Marr | 100 Drawings and a Few Paintings

31 March - 1 May 2022

Following the enormous success of Andrew Marr's first solo exhibition with Eames Fine Art in 2021, we are delighted to welcome him back for a second exhibition of his latest work in our Print Room this spring.

Drawing is the bedrock of Marr's artistic practice. He makes a point of drawing every day, producing at least one finely finished piece before he contemplates anything else in his schedule. This exhibition will feature 100 colour penciled drawings employing experimental mark making techniques as well as large paintings on canvas.

We have also created a beautiful exhibition catalogue which can be viewed and purchased HERE.
A FRIDAY MORNING WITH THE ARTIST IN HIS STUDIO
Watch the short film of Andrew Marr HERE
Paintings

'Each picture has a meaning for me. They are abstract in the sense that I think heavily about shape, colour combinations and motifs.

My work reflects my moods, emotions and feelings. I am a relatively sunny, optimistic kind of person, and these are mostly sunny, optimistic pictures. They are about the fact that life is short but the world is beautiful.’

The subjects suggest themselves day by day, emerging from reading, fragments of conversation or the fading aftermaths of nighttime dreams. But looking back, it's beginning to seem to me as if they add up to an almost mythological commentary on daily life – daily life made, somehow, more primal and direct. The paintings here emerge from the drawing practice but through a long and increasingly arduous process; and of course there is almost no connection in terms of the material of the paint, which I often mix myself, and the brisk lines of the drawings."- Andrew Marr
Drawings

'For me drawing is the essential daily practice – however frantic the news, however pressing other events. Over the past year I have begun to draw differently, using part of a pen knife to begin with, directly onto the paper. Because in normal light you can't actually see the lines you are making, this allows a more freehand, almost subconscious way of mark making. It gives a spontaneous, more energetic texture to the substance of the drawing which is only revealed when I rub across it in different colours. I am as in love with bright colours as I ever have been, and remain in awe of the quality of modern coloured pencils made by the best manufacturers; but this way of drawing allows colour to play against line in a way that vaguely recalls woodcut or even etching.'
Artworks
Andrew Marr
Flying to America XI:21, 2021
'The job of the viewer is to receive the energy that the artist has put in to the work.’

Paper size: 420 x 300 mm

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Artworks
Andrew Marr
Nostalgia for Modernism VI:21, 2021
Paper size: 420 x 300 mm
£450.00
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At a Glance in the Print Room | Andrew Marr: 100 Drawings and a Few Paintings

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