(an-dee van o-ver-berg)

andyvanoverberghe a mixed media creator and designer focusing in animation arts and high-detail fine art illustrations primarily using ink and charcoal on wood and stone. He specializes in creative writing, anatomical drawing, world building, storyboards, conceptual design, motion graphics design, video production, and animation. Balancing the light and the dark in all things, his work provokes imagination and explores anatomy, philosophy, psychology, nature, spirituality, the cosmos, geometry, and the world observed. His work inspires the spirit and enriches the mind.

“Drawing is my meditation. It is a documentation of my journey and a catalogue of growth and adaptation. Disciplines, studies, inspirations, and interests from a wide variety of philosophies, spiritualities, sciences, and fantasies fuse in the balance of my creative process. Every element is a symbol or representation of an idea. Like cogs on gears all lines work together to form patterns. Visual textures mimic patterns of nature and of thought. Free flowing ideas with regard to an organic canvas and loose expressive line work. A gathering of lines are simple forms of highly complex ideals. Like atoms forming matter. Lines forming patterns. Patterns forming texture. Textures forming shapes. Shapes forming thought. Thought forming stories. Every emotion tells a story. Every story has a purpose, a lesson, and life.”

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“A tree lived once some time ago. I don’t know where and I don’t know when. Over time this tree branched out in random organic direction. This tree grew in an organic pattern. It was cut down at a precise height and sent to a mill where it was divided into slabs of specific proportion. These uniquely different slabs were transported to places we will never know and further cut down by more objects to deliberate specifications. Eventual pieces of the pieces crossed my path at a given place and a given time. Presented with only a small piece of the once breathing life form, a particular section of grain of a particular discarded section of a slab of wood from somewhere, my subconscious recognizes shape and image based on the grain and knots. I see what I see, I think as I do, and I draw what I draw. Ink, charcoal, wood, stone, and time all converge in a balance of design dictated by my subconscious and translated into a recognizable language (sort of). Pulling inspiration from a myriad of angles, my subconscious analyses, respects, dissects, and cultivates the differences between fusing them into one. This collision of timelines of the living universe presents my current artwork. Balance in the organic unforgiving random.

-andyvanoverberghe