T-Bill Andrews

Prairie Plaid

Mac and Cheese (1 of 120)

Mixed Media on Canvas

Image Size 46 x 56

Image Size 48 x 36

227120 T-Bill does Jackson doing Vincent doing Sunflowers

227122 Rain of the Cranberries -Las Vegas 2002 Palms Hotel

Mixed Media on Canvas

Image Size 40 x 40

T. Bill Andrews creates paintings, typically with textured accents, on large canvas in the action painting tradition of Jackson Pollock and other abstract expressionists. Bill studied the work of Pollock while at the University of Iowa and came to believe that with the advent of photography and film, the meaning of representational art collapsed upon itself. In this ruin and rubble are found the elements of beauty in modern art. Bill extends this metaphor in paintings by often incorporating rubble in his paintings.

Bill views his expansive, wall-sized abstracts as a response to the concrete confines of his experience as an attorney. His interest lies in exploring the threshold of art and personal emotion as expressed by the counterplay of color and texture in multiple media.

When family and friends began referring to his home as "the Gallery" and requesting custom-made works, Bill realized there might be a larger audience for his artwork.

Bill was an engineering watch supervisor and instructor in the U.S. Navy Nuclear Program and received his degree with High Distinction from the University of Iowa, where he was a published member of the undergraduate Iowa Writers' Workshop. Bill then attended Yale Law School where he was on the Yale Law Journal, a Judicial Law Clerk, and a student prosecutor.

Upon graduation Bill worked for one of Iowa's largest corporate law firms. In early 1994 he founded his own law firm representing consumers and their families. Bill prefers to work on large canvas and murals to explore the vibrance of nonfigurative chaos in an all too ordered world.

Custom commissions have incorporated an interior's color palate and even fabrics. Bill's Motto: "If you have a large, white wall, I want to fill it all."