“When I am painting, I am just dreaming out loud“.“My pictures are personal statements rendered through a dialogue between materials, echo’s of my own personalexperience, and the emotions connected to those experiences. I prefer to take a narrative approach by giving the viewersignposts and only starting points for their free associations and interpretations. It is then up to the viewer to find andcomplete their own story and dialogue.”Working from memories and the "mind's eye", dreams and emotions inspire my creative processes and provide abasis for my portraits, figures and landscapes.I think that art is a creative manifestation of one's own accumulated life experiences....the subconscious mind's needto translate one's present state into visual clues, symbols, pictures, and daydreams for self-explanation of life andexistence. I am seeking, struggling for, and arriving at tangible images of personal understanding. EducationAuburn University, School of Visual Art and Design Bachelor of Fine Art, 1984Awards1984, Illustration appearing inPrint Magazine Regional Design Annual.1987-2000, Free-lance artist creating artworks for advertising and corporate clients, design firms and variouspublishers of literature for children.1998, Junior Library Guild Award for illustrated children’s picture bookDragon Scales & Willowleaves, published byG.P. Putnam’s Sons, New York 1998.1999, Cover art commission forKnock At A Star: A Child’s Introduction to Poetry, compiled by X.J. and Dorothy M.Kennedy. published by Little, Brown, BostonIllustrated by Andrew Portwood and Karen Lee Baker.ExhibitionsHeaven Blue Rose Gallery, Group show, Atlanta, GA 2006Aliya Linstum Gallery, Atlanta, Ga, Scott Hill, The traveler’s diary,Introducing Andrew Portwood, Middle gallery, March 17- April 6, 2007Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GAAndrew Portwood, Margaret Dyer ,Sept. 8-29, 2007Aliya Linstrum Gallery, Atlanta, GA , Equus Curatio, Group show, Oct. 6-26 2007Aliya Linstum Gallery, Atlanta, GA ,Group show, Holiday Exhibition Dec 27, 2007River Gallery, Feb 1-29, 2008, Chattanooga,TNA different story, Andrew Portwood, Mary Cour Burrows Joan RasmussenBennett Gallery, Nashville, TN, Artrageous, Group show, November, 2009The Mercantile, Atlanta, GA 2009-2011The Nicholson Gallery, Atlanta, GA 2010 - 2013Pryor Fine Art Gallery, Atlanta, 2-week Pop-Up show, October 2014Anne Irwin Fine Art, Atlanta, Small Works Show , 2014Muse Gallery, Roswell GA , 201514th Street Antiques, Atlanta, GA, 2016MacGryder Gallery,615 Julia Street, New Orleans, LA, 20186 charcoal drawings exhibited July 7, 2018, group show,Meyer Vogl Gallery, Charleston, SC, 2021,Love Story, a group exhibition, June 4-25, 2021Meyer Vogl Gallery,Mixtape, group exhibition, Dec 3-23, 2021Good On Paper, group exhibition, March 4-25Bright Ideas, Diane Eugster & Andrew PortwoodJune 3rd- 24th, 2022Meyer Vogl Gallery, Choose Your Own Adventure, group exhibition, June 2-23, 2023LilyPad West Gallery, Milwaukee, WI, “Into the Night” exhibition, Nov. 1- Dec. 31, 2023Jillian Mac Gallery, 3923 Magazine Street, New Orleans, LAGuest artist, Block Party Magazine Street, August 3rd, 2023,Full Circle, Group Show, Dec. 2, 2023PressChattanooga Times Free Press Sunday, January 27, 2008 “A Different Story” Narrative is the common denominatoramong the artists featured at the River Gallery In FebruaryEquestrian Quarterly Magazine, Volume 3, Issue 3"The Imaginary Equines of Andrew Portwood" by Stephanie PetersArt + Design Magazine, Art of Living/ Spring 2018, Issue No. 18Page 44, des Objets pour les hommes, Harlequin Horse, by Andrew Portwood, monotype on paper,17” x 13”