Andy Carstairs
Born in Jamaica, raised in Africa and Norfolk.
Lives in London.
'I choose weird stories because they suit my inclination best—one of my strongest and most persistent wishes being to achieve, momentarily, the illusion of some strange suspension or violation of the galling limitations of time, space, and natural law which for ever imprison us and frustrate our curiosity about the infinite cosmic spaces beyond the radius of our sight and analysis' - H.P. Lovercraft
Moebius, Atkinson Grimshaw, SR Badmin, Will Blake, Peter Blake, Richard Avedon, Mervyn Peake, Jeffrey Smart, Rex Whistler, Ernst Haekel, Rowland Hilder, Barbara Jones, the golden ratio, Samuel Palmer,John Ford, cameras obscura, Sergio Leone, Disney, Stanley Kubrick, Hokusai, that Disney thing with the paintbrush colouring a B&W drawing, Dianne Arbus, Hayao Miyazaki and Kazuo Oga, Currier & Ives, O. Winston Link, Hejira, Martin Sharp, Thomas Jones, Weegee The Famous, botanical & technical illustration, Krazy Kat/George Herriman, Joseph Wright of Derby, sideshow banners, William Klein, Farm Security Administration photographers, AOS, Hiroshige, that folding page thing they used to have on the back of MAD magazine, Rorschach plates, WS Burroughs/cut ups, Rupert Bear, David Hockney, Caspar David Friedrich, Charles M Schulz, the John Betjeman / John Piper County Guides, Robert Crumb, William Egglestone, New South Wales Police Archive photographs, The School Prints series, Valerius de Saedeleer, Charles Tunnicliffe, Palladianism, René Magritte, Andrei Tarkovsky, Land Art, Edward Hopper, Thomas Jones, Badlands, Thomas Baines...
