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A Celebration of the Arts
WOW! | ARUNDEL FESTIVAL OF THE ARTS 2025
A Celebration
of the Arts
Andy Waite
Painter, Poet, Storyteller in Colour
Andy has been based in Arundel for over 40 years and
has long drawn inspiration from the dramatic landscapes
of the South Downs and his travels across Europe, North
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across the UK and internationally and he is represented
by galleries nationwide.
As an exhibitor every year since the inception of Arundel
Gallery Trail, Andy has played a pivotal role in shaping
Arundel9s cultural identity, helping to establish it as a
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exhibitions have become a much-anticipated fixture of
the Trail, celebrated for their warmth, originality, and
immersive creative spirit.
Andy has also contributed to Arundel Festival9s visual
identity in recent years, generously providing the cover
image of the brochure for the past three years, including
this year9s edition.
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Andy9s exhibition history is as rich and layered as his
canvases. From his first solo show at Christie9s in London
to regular appearances at the Affordable Art Fair, and
more than three decades of exhibiting in the Arundel
Gallery Trail, his presence in the British art scene is
longstanding and respected.
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Andy9s beautiful painting Tibetan Love Song, currently
exhibited with NoonPowell Fine Art in Richmond has
been generously donated as the brochure cover this year
- signed limited edition prints are available from Andy at
the Gallery Trail.
A Celebration of the Arts
Emerging from the restrictive education system of postwar Britain into the liberating cultural revolution of the
60s and 70s, Andy found his voice through music, poetry
and painting - each medium continuing to inform and
enrich the other in his creative practice. With colour as his
primary language, Andy9s work explores the emotional
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layered, scraped, textured and reworked over time building a poetic surface where the unconscious and
imagination meet. Influenced by natural forms but rooted
in expressive abstraction, his compositions resonate with
a quiet, evocative power.
Andy has published three books combining his paintings
and poetry, as well as a standalone poetry collection
illustrated with his black-and-white photographs.
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