Andrew Restall (1931 - 2024): Memorial Exhibition
Andrew Restall's work straddles painting, printmaking and collage.
Known for his expressive abstractions of landscape and place, his works express poetic and subtle modulations of the landscapes around and beyond his home in West Linton.
A much respected and admired artist, this exhibition of selected works celebrates the breadth of Restall's practice.
Andrew Restall is known for his postage stamp designs and more latterly mixed media landscapes.
Born in Oxfordshire in 1931, the son of a professional typographer, he graduated from Edinburgh College of Art in 1954, where he later established the new School of Visual Communications. In 1965 he was seconded to the Royal College of Art as Research Fellow in Stamp Design and alongside teaching, Restall worked from 1964 for the Post Office designing stamps and related philatelic material. He designed nine sets or part sets between 1964 and 1983. This took him into a different world, building on an existing interest in typography and printing processes. Two of his most notable contributions to stamp design were the Commonwealth Games issue of 1970 and the Sailing Stamps of 1975. In 1975 he became Head of Visual Communication at University of Brighton.
In his final years, due to reduced mobility, as well as the pandemic, he enjoyed the challenge of exploring and developing visual ideas that are independent of specific locations, but still landscape based, and free from verbal or descriptive references. Andrew died in 2024.
