Andrew James is a Wellington-based artist, illustrator, writer and educator. He usually has a pen in one hand and a sketchbook in the other.
He started drawing to record a long trip, but that turned into keeping a record of his whole life in sketchbooks and led to an obsession with all kinds of drawing, and especially drawing on location.
Previously a communications meteorologist at MetService and a high school mathematics teacher, he uses his science and education background to make complex ideas understandable with words and pictures: in real time as well as back in the studio.
As well as drawing, Andrew runs workshops for almost any audience about the power of drawing. Past workshops have been for beginners, high school teachers, communications professionals as well as professional artists.
Enjoying the serious as well as the silly, Andrew’s career highlights include drawing at a kiwi release and working with Scion researchers on a comic about the smell of possum butts.
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