Tower Gallery Exhibition
4th August to 14th September 2017
Andrew Gillespie is a staff nurse in Belfast City Hospital. He has worked here in the Dialysis Unit for just over 30 years. He realised early in his career the significant impact that Art can have in the process of healing and rehabilitation. He is therefore grateful to the Artscare Team for the opportunity to exhibit in the Tower Gallery during August and September.
He started painting seriously five years ago, although his interest in fine art was encouraged early in his life by the work of his father, the respected Irish artist, George K. Gillespie. One of his father’s paintings is on the ground floor of the Cancer Centre here at BCH. His father’s impressionistic style of painting remains the most considerable influence on Andrew’s work, although he also admires the work of Irish artists Frank McKelvey and J. Humbert Craig.
Mainly through the medium of acrylics, Andrew’s work could best be described as bringing a more contemporary interpretation to an impressionistic style. With its emphasis on colour and tone, his work embraces characteristic themes of coastal scenes and Irish landscapes which always convey a sense of light and energy. The Causeway Coast would be his first love, for example, Ballintoy and Whitepark Bay, followed by the rugged scenery of Co. Donegal and Co Down.
Make sure to stop by the Tower Gallery to view Andrew's artwork over August and September. Read this over on the BHSC Facebook page here https://www.facebook.com/BelfastTrust/posts/andrew-gillespie-is-a-staff-nurse-in-belfast-city-hospital-he-has-worked-here-in/1601519789899887