Andy Rollo
Connections
16th - 31st August 2025
Andy Rollo studied Fine Art painting in the late 1980’s at Falmouth and later at Winchester School of Art where he completed a Masters Degree in European Fine Art. He has exhibited in France, Spain and the U.K. and has work in private collections in Sweden, Germany, Australia and the United States. Alongside his creative practice he has taught painting, drawing, printmaking, illustration and Visual Culture, primarily at Yeovil College where he has worked for over 25 years.
Andy’s work has been related to place and time, whether that is time taken to create a piece of work or time experienced through the seasons, geology and cycles of life, death and re-generation. Over the last 6 years his work has evolved and changed to focus more on issues related to woodland, light, the environment and humanities impact on this earth. Consequently, you will see seemingly abstract pieces juxtaposed with larger paintings primarily of Duncliffe Woods and other forest areas looked after by the Woodland Trust; pieces which focus increasingly on fallen trees that will be broken down by fungi to replenish the earth.
These tree paintings act as a metaphor for our own precarious place on earth. We are facing a paradigm shift in which we, the human race, is encouraged to reconsider its relationship to the natural world before it is too late.
“Woodland can take on an almost cathedral like quality; awe inspiring and magnificent with their juxtaposition of grandeur and the spiritual. We ignore our natural environment and its value at our peril”
