'MOUNTAINS AND RIVERS WITHOUT END'
Andy Walton

Andy Walton, a self-proclaimed 'typical urban man', took a camping trip in British Columbia, Canada in 2003.

This exhibition was the result of three months under canvas, 7,000 miles of travelling, from snow to brain-sweating heat in what Andy described as “unbelievable beauty, un-touched by human beings”.

“I have had to draw on every aspect of painting that I know. I switched between traditional landscape painting and Zen influence and caligraphy, the random collecting and drawing of small nature objects or human detritus”. The paintings became stories, he explained: “about rusty tin cans - which might have been used by 19th century gold miners - or fishhooks and bundles of kindling”.

The exhibition consisted of a mixture of painted, photographed and written images produced from the trip between May and September 2003.