Welcome

I have recently retired from full time ministry in the Church of England and the Church in Wales to live in north Suffolk, where I am painting seriously once more. During the early sixties I had trained in Fine Art at Chelsea and Bishop Otter College, Chichester, before teaching Art and Art History for sixteen years in Secondary Schools. In 1986 I became ordained and served as a parish priest in a wide variety of places, in part still using those same visual gifts and creative interests to enrich the church's ministry.

I will let my work speak for itself but while I can now travel easily to all sorts of interesting locations close to home, producing landscape drawings and paintings at an easel, I am fortunate to have a studio and time with which to use it. This has allowed me to bring my other great love, of writing poetry, together with my painting, expressing the unique landscape of Suffolk estuary, the Norfolk border and places we now visit on holiday. As such these settings for some of my pictures can link biblical stories and text with contemporary spiritual understanding.

To give me an idea of who's been visiting me here, you can write in the guestbook.

If you wish to send me an email please use the Contact page or send directly to art@andrewvessey.co.uk