Painting by Andrew Champion 27 Artworks Sold

Two blue butterflies

Acrylic, Canvas, Ready to hang

30cm (W) x 60cm (H) x 1.5cm (D)

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A$490

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Artwork Description

Blue Butterflies are majestic, their blue flash as they fly from rain-forest vine to palm tree across the water hole is a memory from the rainforest surrounding Mossman Gorge north of tropical Cairns in North Queensland. They are recognised from the Dunk Island logo of the Ulysses butterfly, to the giant Morpho Butterflies of South America (search them on Google, they are truly a wonderful butterfly). This abstract represents my expression of their variety in nature.

Artist Bio

Inspired by the Australian landscape, Andrew has a love for life, our beaches, forests, outback plains and wildlife.
He loves old architecture, urban design and Australian landmarks, which are a key focus of his paintings.
His work reveals a strong sense of humour, personal reflection and love of everything linked to Australia, it's history, its peoples and culture.
Born in Albury, New South Wales, Andrew spent many weekends boating and camping on the banks of local rivers, hiking through the lower Snowy Mountains, sleeping in old shearing sheds near Tallangatta, fishing with his father on the Hume Dam, inland western rivers of NSW and family holidays to Victoria's Mornington Peninsula and Bermagui on the South Coast of New South Wales.
Educated in the public school system, Andrew learnt to appreciate life as a boy from the bush who became an artist. He started sketching in the late 60's and attended art school at Albury's Technical College. Learning along the way with a variety of experiences enriched through amateur stage shows, the military, a career in new home design and sales and twenty years in public office.
Andrew has his studio and teaches adults to sketch, paint and explore their inner creative, on Queensland's Sunshine Coast.
Enjoy his unique and quirky individual style including the emu series, Ned Kelly, outback and ocean landscapes and Australian abstracts with a notably different style, perspective and use of colour.
His work is held in private homes right across Australia as well as Hawaii and France.

Commissions

Andrew's studio is in Sunshine Coast, Queensland