Andrew Causon enjoys painting the human form and his work reflects his joyous way of looking at life. “I’m an artist who likes people, so I paint them,” he says. For Andrew, the magic is in the moment when you make eye contact. “I want to capture the essence of the subject and celebrate their lives,” he shares.
This gifted artist has been involved in art from the moment he could hold a pencil and draw. As a young child he jetted across the globe and found himself in awe of a self-portrait of Rembrandt on display in Warwick Castle. “That became my motivation and ambition,” he says. “To me, Rembrandt is the pinnacle of brilliance.”
Andrew’s works pay homage to Rembrandt, one of the greatest artists of Holland’s “golden age”. “If you look at medieval art, they always used gold as a background. It made the work more valuable in more ways than one,” muses Andrew. His works are imbued with gold, copper and silver leaf. The use of metals injects warmth, vitality and movement as they change depending on the light source and the angle at which the artwork is viewed.
Andrew is definitely making waves in the art world with his striking bold works. They demand attention, a second look to ponder them. Many of Andrew’s works are of celebrities that graced the silver screen in the last century.
He always likes to a paint people in their best light. “Art needs to be a visual compliment. I like to see the beauty in people and my art shows that,” he explains.
Over the past decade, Andrew has been working as a professional artist. His works will exist long after he is gone and that thought gives him pause. He will touch the lives of those he has never met. “My paintings will outlive me in houses I have never been to, in lives that I do not know,” he says. “It is a legacy that holds value in a society that seems so disposable at times.”
With that notion in mind, Andrew also crafts lamps made from preloved parts of things. He likes to give them a new life and purpose, to recognise and redefine the value of the object again. “I love the clean Georgian lines and my lamps reflect that style — perhaps with a flair of steampunk added to them,” he adds. artloversaustralia.com.au