As a young man I qualified as a skipper and sailed many thousands of miles on yachts. It was a
wonderful way to learn about the natural world.
Later in life I spent five years in full-time art education and, perhaps unsurprisingly, found that my
past experiences began feeding into my new artistic life. The sky, the weather and particularly the
wind, thus became the inspiration for my artwork.
My approach to these current artworks is to try to create a framework whereby the wind can
express itself. This method has provided me with many surprising discoveries which I try to share
through my sculptures.
Voyaging at sea inevitably involves time to simply sit and watch the sea and sky and the effects of
the wind. I invite the viewer of my work to similarly allow time to adjust to the rhythm of nature and
literally ‘see the wind’ in an entirely new light.
The movies shown below were filmed at “The Invisible Wind” exhibition, commissioned by the Royal
Horticultural Society for the inaugural RHS Chatsworth Flower Show in June 2017.
For further information see www.wonderfulnature.net
Andrew Lee
