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The drawings of artist
Andy Drysdale are consummate and informative, isolating
exciting aspects of the artist’s talent and heightened
realism. In translating physical objects into line and shade
he challenges, and is challenged by, the mystery and wonder
of the visible world. Finding inspiration from the beauty
of nature and the long hours mandated by the intricacies
of his medium, the key to his talent seems to lurk in his
composition, balance, and ability to capture not only his
subject but also its very essence. In Coral Sea Drifter,
the artist‘s slats overlap in ways that introduce
surface ambiguities; the work conveys ponderous mass coupled
with delicate fragility. His tight cropping offers us a
sense of abstraction, while his lines deliver movement,
replicating the flow of waves.
Drysdale was studying art even as a child
in Durban, South Africa. Later, he specialized in textile
design and fine arts before immigrating to Australia where
he continued his fine arts studies, adding multimedia to
his curriculum vitae.
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