Over the last few years I have been photographing my late father's art with the aim of putting together some form of on-line catalogue of his work.  The intention is to keep adding further photographs of his work to this website over time. This includes artworks owned by private individuals, companies and galleries.

Born in Cockpen, Midlothian in 1936, Andrew Smith began drawing and painting as a young boy. His passion for visual art led him to more serious study as a young man. He graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in the late 1950s and this was followed by periods of time living and working in Italy (on a scholarship) and in London. He then returned to Scotland where he began a career as an art teacher which was to keep him busy for the next 25 years. However, he continued to work on his own projects throughout this period - both at his home in Edinburgh and at the Printmakers’ Workshop. In his mid 50's he retired from teaching art and committed to his passion full time.

Since the first showing of work in his early 20s, he has had many solo and joint exhibitions over the subsequent years. He also completed a number of private and corporate commissions, including paintings for RBS, Toche Ross and a large commission from Standard Life in 1989 for their new offices at Tanfield in Edinburgh (which were under construction at the time). I've recently unearthed photos of the seven large canvases that comprised this commission. Scans of these photos have now been added to the website. Each of these seven oil paintings is six foot six but eight foot six. This commission was described in The Observer on 1st July 1990 as "one of the most challenging commissions ever awarded to a Scottish artist".

I hope you enjoy viewing the work on this website. Please keep in mind that the photographs have not been taken by a professional photographer and that colours will vary from one computer screen to another.  Andrew’s work has a lot of impact when seen in the flesh. Hopefully, some of this impact still comes across on the website and his highly skilled use of oils in particular is not diluted too much by being viewed on-line.

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Thanks for stopping by,

Martin Smith