About

This website features recent work, covering techniques from a range of traditional arts and crafts.

Andrew Franks was born in Kent and took a bachelors degree in Visual and Performing Art at Brighton University, graduating with honours in 1985.

PSTA Degree Show 2015 — Final exhibition, June 2015

In 2011 his interest in Islamic art drew him to study geometry and biomorphic design with Adam Williamson and Richard Henry from Art of Islamic Pattern and Iznik tiling with Nooshin Shafiei from the Prince’s School of Traditional Art. With scholarships from the Farjam and the Albukhary Foundations, he took a two year masters degree at The Prince’s School of Traditional Arts from where he graduated in 2015 with distinction.

His final exhibition featured an ‘Altar to Nature’ which combined his love of detailed paintings of flowers and leaves reminiscent of mediaeval herbals with illuminated, geometric screens and plaster reliefs.

He lives in Sussex where he is pursuing his interest in craft and painted objects inspired by nature.

Final MA exhibition 2015

Making things by hand