Andrew Painter, Artist Statement

I graduated with a 1st Class Degree in Illustration and relocated to London where I started work as a trainee animator at Walt Disney Animation as part of the animation team on Who Framed Roger Rabbit. After finishing the film, I spent the next 20 years working as a animator/director/character designer for all the major London based commercial animation studios directing animating jobs as varied as the Euro Tunnel commercial to breakfast cereal commercials produced by Kelloggs, General Mills and Nestle.

With the arrival of 3D, the lack of drawing just left me frustrated so I decided to go back to illustration. I still design on paper but use Illustrator to create images that have their traditional roots in strong drawing and dynamic layouts but feel and look very contemporary. My client base ranges from designing for TV and animation companies to toy and games, educational, publishing, editorial, packaging and advertising – anything that is character based.

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Website of the artist, 2020

Andrew Painter was born in 1957 in Wolverhampton, England. After a year of preparatory school of Fine Arts, he joined the Goldsmiths College in London. He left the school after a few months and spent a year in Calcutta.

Back in England, he led a group of artists and began to exhibit his works. He arrived in France around 1988 and settled in Angers, where he still lives. He has exhibited with the Origin Gallery, Dublin, from 2001, most recently in 2017.