Andrew Grassi Kelaher is an artist currently based just North of Sydney (Australia) on the Central Coast. This is an area with amazing scenery, stunning beaches and fits well with Andrews’s love of surfing, the ocean and paintings inspired by his surrounds. Being an artist has always been a big part of Andrew’s life. As a child he had paintings exhibited in the major Sydney art prizes of the time, and by his early 20’s he had exhibited in galleries across Australia. Ever since he has been a full time artist working either on his paintings and exhibitions or becoming involved in other creative projects such as snow sculpture in the Australian ski fields. Over his career he has held numerous solo shows in commercial galleries, exhibited in group shows in regional galleries, and been a finalist or won art prizes, on the rare occasions he enters them. He has also sold works internationally including Singapore, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong and the USA. “I have always been most interested in Australian artists and I hope in my work you can see these influences. Artist such as Brett Whiteley - I just love the way he flattens out perspective and fits so much into the canvas with the slightest brush stroke, Arthur Boyd – and his contrasts and how he draws your eye to features that he chooses as important and Tim Storrier - I love his skies and the crisp way he paints. Painting is the way I put together the images I gather from my environment. I create my own visualisation of what I paint but with a nod to my hero’s and always it needs to be something that I really enjoy looking at, something that I would hang in my house and look at every day and smile.”