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'Footballers in Zante' - the vibrant 'sun and shadow' style is typical of Andrew Macara's work

'Tobogganers, Allestree Park, Derby' - one of a number of Andrew Macara paintings featuring a scene from his home county of Derbyshire

ANDREW MACARA RA is a Derby based painter whose accomplished and vibrant work has a wide and ever-increasing following. Many of his paintings in oils reflect his worldwide travels, but a substantial number of his works depict scenes and places in his native county of Derbyshire.

He was born in Ashbourne on 4 April 1944. Although he had some tuition through evening classes at Derby College of Art he is largely self-taught. He enjoyed a brief spell at Leonard Fuller's St. Ives School of Painting in Cornwall, which proved a formative experience in developing a distinctive style, in which bright colours often feature both in sunlight and in contrasting shade.

In the early years of his career he was commissioned by Derby Chamber of Commerce to paint the ceremony of the opening of Derby Assembly Rooms by the Queen Mother in 1977 - another prestigious commission was to paint murals for the Members' Dining Room in the new parliamentary building in Westminster.

He has won many awards and has held regular solo exhibitions. His work is achieving increasingly high prices in the London auction houses and has attracted a number of loyal individual collectors both at home and abroad. He lives at Farley Road, near Littleover, Derby. When not painting he is a very enthusiastic and regular tennis player - a long-term member of Littleover Tennis Club.

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