Andy Maitland, British iPad artist,

makes digital drawings on an iPad. His drawings are made directly from observation, usually outdoors. He has been making drawings exclusively on iPad since 2011. He lives and draws in Surrey, England.

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Ibstock Place »

V&A London »

The Hurlingham Club »

Interactive digital exhibition book, ‘The Digital Garden® 2018, iPad drawings with Augmented Reality, The Royal Horticultural Society Garden Wisley’  »

2021 - Mid-May, English Rains, new iPad drawings  »

Andy Maitland

Email: art@andymaitland.com

Phone, UK time, txt anytime: +44 (0)7848 687717

Instagram: @andy.maitland.ipad.artist

About…

Andy Maitland makes digital drawings on an iPad. He lives and draws in Surrey, UK. His drawings are made directly from observation, usually outdoors. He has been making iPad drawings since 2011. His background training is in the arts and design industry.
Drawing and the English landscape in Surrey is Andy’s current subject and has been the main focus of his work since 2011.

Work…

Andy draws exclusively on the iPad. He has worked with the V&A, Apple, London Heathrow Airport, the London Symphony Orchestra, the Royal Horticultural Society, the Hurlingham Club, United Kingdom Research and Innovation (innovative part of the UK government), the NHS and with schools.

Motto and mentor...
’Stop designing!’
-Jack Gardner.

Andy exhibits regularly, collaborates on public and private projects, is open to project commissions, talks about creative process on invitation and hosts a small number of workshops for Schools Educational initiatives. View his drawings, publications and notecards.

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Frensham Heights »

2018 - ‘The Digital Garden® 2018’, an interactive exhibition of cinematic scale iPad drawings with augmented reality (AR) at the Royal Horticultural Society »

2019 - ‘The Digital Garden® 2019’, one work of six animated iPad drawings displayed on six white iPads, The Royal Horticultural Society  »

London Symphony Orchestra »

Selected Reviews

‘There was a real sense of wonder in the room at how the picture was going to unfold… and it worked out brilliantly with the orchestra’s playing’
- LONDON SYMPHONY ORCHESTRA  Concert choreographed animated iPad drawing

‘Stunning!’
- ROYAL HORTICULTURAL SOCIETY  ‘The Digital Garden®’, public art exhibition

‘Enlightening’
-THE HURLINGHAM CLUB  Talks

‘Passengers were surprised and delighted’
- LONDON HEATHROW AIRPORT Live drawing and digital drawing classes

‘This is fantastic’
- GP&J BAKER  ‘The Digital Garden®’, public art exhibition

‘Feedback was brilliant’
-V&A  Talk and workshop

‘Thanks very much for an excellent talk, both to us and more importantly the students. Letting daylight in on magic’
- FRENSHAM HEIGHTS, THE ALDRIDGE THEATRE  Morning Talk

‘While my patients rest in bed looking at the pictures on the wall I want to encourage them to imagine visiting these local places when they are back to health’
- SURREY AND SUSSEX HEALTHCARE NHS TRUST  iPad drawings

‘The pictures are beautiful and the prints are lush and frantic. So proud to have these in our home’

- CEDRIC M & JILL H, LONDON, UK / CALIFORNIA, USA  Commissioned iPad drawings

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‘Flower Garden’ some new iPad drawings 2021  »

‘An Imagined Garden, abstraction iPad drawings 2020-2022’ Exhibition »

London Heathrow Airport »

United Kingdom Research and Innovation (UKRI) - International Year of Plant Health 2020 »

GP Associates »

Exhibitions and Installations »

Surrey and Sussex Healthcare NHS Trust »

Corporate and Schools Educational Initiatives »

Publications, digital and print »