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Annabel Andrews is a British-born visual artist based in San Lorenzo de El Escorial, Madrid, Spain.

Her background includes: Honors from the Royal Drawing Society of London, the Municipal Sculpture Workshop of Las Palmas, and the Eduardo Peña Academy (Madrid). She has also participated in Contemporary Art Workshops at the Círculo de Bellas Artes with José Guerrero and Pablo Palazuelo; the Printmaking Workshop of Las Rozas; an Printmaking and life-drawing workshops at the Casa de Cultura de San Lorenzo de El Escorial; and a Landscape Course at the Museo del Prado and the García Ochoa Group. She has held 46 exhibitions, 21 solo and 25 group exhibitions in London and Madrid. Her awards include: First Prize, Majadahonda City Council, Madrid, 1990; Honorable Mention, Majadahonda City Council, Madrid, 1989; Honorable Mention, 4th Villa de las Rozas Competition, Madrid, 1987; First Prize, Peña, Madrid; Selected, Centenary of the Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 1980; First Prize, Caja de Ahorros de Majadahonda, Madrid; Selected, Francisco Alcántara, Círculo de Bellas Artes, Madrid, 1978; First Prize, Majadahonda City Council, Madrid, 1977; Second Prize, Atlantic Fair, Gran Canaria, Canary Islands, 1975.

Her works can be found in private collections and institutions in Spain, the USA, Canada, the United Kingdom, France, Belgium, Germany, Japan, South Korea, Hong Kong, and the United Arab Emirates.

"On beginning to wonder why art has been important to me through so many years, and knowing that vitality dies with an excess of reason, I could talk about the balance between instinct and reason, and how to express myself technically with materials and colour through spontaneous intuition -with an aesthetic feeling - for a cluster of forms and colors arranged to stir the reader in a way that music does.

In an outer world of chaos : abstract painting can appeal to our senses to find psychic equilibrium."

Annabel Andrews

Magazine: Between Light, Nature and Abstraction: The Creative Journey of Annabel Andrews

web: annabelandrews.eu

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