artist's biography

Born in Essex, England, and presently living in Chelmsford, Andrea Farmer Pannell is an established artist and graphic designer. She graduated from the Kent Institute of Art and Design in 1993 with a HND in Graphic Design and Illustration.

Andrea’s paintings are unique and vibrant. Her work is held in collections worldwide with a variety of corporate and private commissions. Various paintings are currently on loan or long term / permanent exhibition with galleries, corporate, charity and healthcare establishments in England. Andrea will also be exhibiting extensively through to 2010 with the Rogue Gene Collective, Art4Essex, Activate and in solo/group/gallery exhibitions.

Andrea’s work is inspired by the ever changing environment plus nature’s colour, mood, texture and form. She favours a vibrant use of colour - oil, ink and mixed media are her preferred mediums. Gold and silver leaf also feature in many of her artworks adding opulence to her unique style of painting.

Dramatic skies, cloud formations, movement and light feature heavily in her contemporary landscape and sunset paintings. Living in Chelmsford, Essex, England the vast beautiful countryside and local views also influence her work - alongside her travels to warmer climates, especially the coasts and islands of the Mediterranean and Adriatic which feature in her tranquil seascape paintings.

Andrea’s expressive abstract paintings are an expression from within the mind - an alternative and sometimes passionate, obscure and twisted view representing personal matters, feelings and emotion with regards to everyday objects in the natural world around us. Popular with private and corporate collectors alike, these paintings are vivid and energetic with sweeping strokes and visual impact.

Andrea’s semi-abstract floral / still life paintings aim to capture her love of flora and nature. These artworks feature flowers or plants in vases or vessels bursting with vitality. The texture and shape of the flowers are rendered in rich oil colour with expressive brush strokes and intricacies of pattern with texture and mixed media. Roses and tulips are amongst the artists favourite flowers. There is also a collection of still life empty vessel paintings in mixed media. These concentrate on semi-abstract, figurative, simple forms with uncrowded space and unfussy lines.