Andy Insh’s Pointillist paintings grace the Café
Our latest show at the Bonnington Café comes from Andy Insh, a ‘painter of dreams’ creating a wonderful new ambience for the whole of September.
Andy first exhibited at the Café in November 2022, with a dazzling array of paintings which he envisaged as “part of a tradition that runs from Blake through Samuel Palmer, Stanley Spencer, Lowry and Cecil Collins,” all artists whose work, he says, was “to one side of the art of their day.”
As Lowry painted Manchester and the North-West, so Insh says he wants “to ‘do’ London and the places that I know.” Aiming at “dreamlike or internal reality,” he renders scenes in a Pointillist style, illuminating the spaces between things, with a delicate sense of perspective. The titles are deliberately open to interpretation as “the best thing about a painting is its mystery,” according to Balthus.
The best way to see Andy’s art is to eat at the Café – which is open Tuesdays to Saturdays from 6pm to 10.30pm, and on Sundays from 11am to 3pm. And 20% of all sales will kindly be donated by the artist to the Bonnington Centre. Check out Andy’s Insta for more on his work at andyinsh1234
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