• Artist Statement

    My pictures are personal statements rendered through a dialogue between materials, echo’s of my own personal experience, and the emotions connected to those experiences.
    Working from memories and the mind's eye, dreams and emotions inspire my processes and provide a basis for portraits, figures and landscapes.
    I think that ultimately, I paint to please myself. Painting, for me, is a means by which I find personal peace and self-actualization. Painting is a therapeutic vehicle by which one's own stories can be told.

  • Andrew Portwood

    Education

    Auburn University, School of Visual Art and Design
    Bachelor of Fine Art, 1984

    Awards

    1984, Illustration appearing in Print Magazine Regional Design Annual.

    1987-2000, Free-lance artist creating artworks for advertising and corporate clients, design firms and various publishers of literature for children.

    1998, Junior Library Guild Award for illustrated children’s picture book Dragon scales & Willowleaves, published by G.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York 1998.

    1999, Cover art commission for Knock At A Star: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry, compiled by X.J. and Dorothy M. Kennedy. published by Little, Brown, Boston
    Illustrated by Andrew Portwood and Karen Lee Baker.

    Exhibitions

    2006 Heaven Blue Rose Gallery, Group show, Atlanta, GA 2006

    2007 Aliya Linstum Gallery, Atlanta, Ga, Gallery Roster Group Show,
    Introducing Andrew Portwood, Middle gallery, March 17- April 6, 2007

    Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA
    Andrew Portwood, Margaret Dyer ,Sept. 8-29

    Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA , Equus Curatio, Group show, Oct. 6-26

    Aliya Linstum Gallery, Atlanta, GA ,Group show, Holiday Exhibition Dec 27,

    2008 River Gallery, Feb 1-29, 2008, Chattanooga,TN
    A different story

    2009 Bennett Gallery, Nashville, TN, Artrageous, Group show, November

    The Mercantile, Atlanta, GA 2009-2011

    The Nicholson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2010 - 2013

    2014 Pryor Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, 2-week Pop-Up show, October

    2014 Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta, Small Works Show

    2015 Muse Gallery, Roswell GA, "EverSong", group show

    2015-2016 14th Street Antiques & Interiors, exhibition of my artwork for sale on my own gallery wall. Displayed, sold, marketed and created artwork for Andrew Portwood Studio

    2017- present Moved studio space to New Orleans, Louisiana. Currently Living daily and creating new body of work, paintings, drawings and monotypes..

    2018

    six charcoal figure drawings exhibited July 7th, 2018 at The Mac-Gryder Gallery in New Orleans. 615 Julia Street, NOLA 70130..A group show featuring drawings in black & white.

    Press

    Chattanooga Times Free Press Sunday, January 27, 2008 “A Different Story” Narrative is the common denominator among the artists featured at the River Gallery In February

    Equestrian Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3
    "The Imaginary Equines of Andrew Portwood"
    by Stephanie Peters

    A monotype published in the Spring 2018 issue of Art + Design Magazine, a beautiful fashion and lifestyle magazine created here in New Orleans and distributed worldwide. You can find a copy at Barnes & Noble. My artpiece Harlequin Horse is featured in the portfolio section...page 44. You can see it here by navigating to New Works on paper in the menu on this site.