Andrew Sutherland was born in South West Africa in 1982. He enrolled at The Ruth Prowse School of Art in 2001 and obtained his Diploma in Fine Art in 2004. Shortly afterwards he began working as an artist’s assistant for a local abstract artist, and in 2008 started exhibiting his own paintings. He has since had 10 solo exhibitions and numerous group shows around South Africa.

Sutherland is inspired by wanderlust and the narratives that underlie human encounters with the natural world. His work relishes the delights of landscape in painted planes that combine graphic and illustrative elements with more traditionally painterly, expressive marks.

His taste for adventure follows through with a long and explorative history of experimentation with different materials: watercolours, brush pens, acrylic and oil paints, charcoal, ink, spray paint or collage on canvas, paper, wood or wall. 

He travels and adventures frequently so that in both artwork and life his subtext remains that of the intrepid explorer.