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Andrew Thompson Biography
Andrew Thompson was born in Southampton and moved to live in Jersey in the Channel Islands with his family at the age of six. He studied art and photography at both Southampton and Derby colleges of art and worked in London as a photographer.
In the last 20 years, since moving back to Jersey, Andrew Thompson has been painting full time at his home by the sea. He has had several solo exhibitions over the years, his most recent one based on The National Trust�s Coastline Campaign.
Andrew Thompson's early paintings focused mainly on portraiture and studio-based figure studies, but gradually the emphasis has shifted to images of people within a beach setting. For him the challenge is to attempt to capture not only the colour and the sparkle of the coastline, but also the relationship of the human figure set against the ever-changing light and movement of the sea.