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“Swimming Art”
ANDREA HALL
Artist. Designer. Swimmer
I spent most of my spare time during childhood either drawing or swimming. I loved art at school, and on the way home I would stop off at the local pool where my Mum would be working – she, like my Grandmother before her were swimming instructors who taught all the local school kids to swim when it was in the national curriculum. I often joke I was born with chlorine in my veins.
However, I didn’t follow the family swimming tradition. I went to art college instead and turned five years of study into a career as a graphic designer. I became freelance in 1999.
In 2012, the London Olympics inspired me to take up swimming again. I watched the ladies marathon 10k swim in the Serpentine lake in London and famously said out loud: “I could’ve done that when I was younger”. And so it began… an infectious draw to the water, to open water swimming, and finally to joining the dots and being compelled to focus my creativity on capturing and sharing the joys of my swimming adventures through my artwork.
I work from my studio in Yorkshire, creating designs using a hybrid of traditional watercolour and digital techniques. I love the unpredictability of real watercolour and the new freedoms of digital technology - this combination is what gives my work its unique character.
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