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31 January 2023.

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'Andy Maitland,

iPad drawings, An Imagined Garden One, from figurative to abstraction, 2011-22'.

'‘’Discombobulation!
The Spring to An Imagined Garden",
is a chapter in a new publication by artist Andy Maitland.

Maitland had spent almost a decade in a daily rhythm of observation and drawing nature outdoors, making figurative drawings on his iPad, face to face with his subject in his local landscape of Surrey, before moving to a new kind of iPad drawing. This experience coupled with the small matter of a pandemic led him to discover a new form of iPad drawing.

"I’m learning to imagine meaningfully".

Born at the very beginning of the pandemic in 2020, as Britain went into an unprecedented lockdown, the idea of making simple drawings came from Maitland's authentic connection between nature and artist - his years of sensory training.

An Imagined Garden One.
"I’m learning to imagine meaningfully. An Imagined Garden One is simultaneously a real physical work and a mental suggestion".

Book description.
An Imagined Garden One is an art book containing new prints and colourful works pictured in-situ accompanied by the artist’s written thoughts. The portfolio (displaying small to expansive-scale works executed between 2021-22) records Maitland’s imaginative transition to a new form of iPad drawing.

An Imagined Garden One is Maitland's manifesto. Not a retrospective work, Maitland's journal excerpts from 2011-22 puts the notion of his current abstraction iPad drawings into context. His book displays several new works, in diverse proportions, accompanied by five written chapters. Each book is companioned with two surprises'.

Less than five hundred books published.
English (UK).
Soft cover.
One hundred and eighty four pages.
A4 (UK) size.
ISBN 978-1-7393183-1-4.
£65 including postage and packaging (UK).
Presently, can be purchased direct from Maitland's Studio.
A copy of this book is in the British Library.