Andrew Mercer

The artistic heritage of north west England resounds with L.S.Lowry and Theo Major the great urban landscape painters of the area. In Andy Mercer we have a 21st.Century visionary who is reinventing the modern north and creating a legacy for his time.

Andy Mercer is an award winning and published artist from Lancaster. An artist whose work is often derived from the uncompromising urban and rural landscapes in which he lives. His eye is attracted by all the multi-sensory devices of nature and mankind, he enjoys building complex realities rich in the patterns and rhythms of suburbia, an interweaving line describing itself around a plane, that pivots around like the wind and the rain constantly changing and giving an organic picture that weaves into a vision of the very fabric of society.

Discovering Mercer's art work and in particular his series of cityscapes it is easy to see the comparison with Paul Klee, the calligraphic work of Miro and the colour of Kandinsky. Klee's concepts of the Pedagogical Sketchbook, of taking a line for a walk, here we are walking the line with Mercer as he explores his world, the lines overlap, entwine and ensnare, they repeat and form shapes, they are given identities, colours, motifs, symbols of the streets, the culture and sub-culture of the northern metro centres. There seems to be some natural evolutionary law at work defining the essence of the place.

Mercer is of the present, he is loud, silent, happy, manic, yet wonderfully sane like life full of fabulous contrasts and contradictions. He enjoys the textures and imagery surrounding us on the streets, the rusting metals, graffiti, rough concrete, street signs, torn weather swept posters and billboards, peeling and fading, revealing layers that create entirely new images, unplanned and unpredicted the raw material of our recycled, re-used re-invented world, and like all artists there is the social commentator with a powerful message and a radical thought.
Richard Sunderland - Inside Solo Magazine

Working digitally does not replace conventional methods it just adds new processes and outcomes. I regularly fuse drawing with photographic and scanned imagery; to produce entirely new hybrid work
The rules are.. there are no rules."
Andy Mercer

Andy’s work can be purchased as limited edition prints, framed or unframed; Andy also adds an extra touch to each image to make each piece a one off - please enquire at the gallery on contact us page.