Andrew creates his work in a wide variety of genres including traditional landscape, abstract, macro and contemporary works.
With the current profusion of images that have been heavily altered, Andrew draws a clear definition when it comes to the digital manipulation of his work. The underlying principle is that the viewer of the photograph should be aware if the image has been altered and that for a photograph to remain a photograph, the original image should always be clearly obvious.
While Andrew will use digital manipulation on some works to express a particular mood or idea, his landscape and abstract works tend not to use digital manipulation and draw purely on nature and natural light.
It is important that while the provenance of the photograph be available (that is where and how the photograph was taken), the interpretation of what the photograph means be left to the viewer.
A photograph is a moment, but a perfect moment. It is complete.
Andrew currently lives in Far North Queensland, Australia, on the Atherton Tablelands near Port Douglas and the Daintree region.
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