AMONG the many artists exhibiting in the exhibition by the Royal Institute of Painters in Water Colours at Tenby Museum and Art Gallery is Andy Wood. Andy Wood was born in Porlock and studied painting at Croydon and Newport Colleges of Art, gaining a degree in Fine Art (Painting) and Film in 1970. After leaving art school, he undertook many different jobs, including working as a stage electrician at the London Palladium, designing posters and programmes for pop concerts whilst living in North Wales, working with a Theatre in Education drama group in Sussex and running an arts centre and adventure playgrounds in Hammersmith. After a year at teacher training college in Twickenham, Andy moved to Dorset in 1977 to concentrate on painting full time. In 1996, he opened the Andy Wood Gallery in Lyme Regis, which displayed both his works and the work of other artists and friends. He closed this gallery in 2002 and moved to Rye in Sussex. In 2009, Andy was elected honorary secretary of the RI and at the society's AGM in April 2014 he was elected president. Andy is also a member of the Royal Society of British Artists and he regularly exhibits works at the annual shows of both societies at the Mall Galleries, London. His work has also featured in numerous exhibitions in Britain, Europe, Canada and the USA. His works are in the collections of His Majesty the Sultan of Oman, the Central Carolina Bank, the Chelsea Arts Club, Lyme Regis Museum and Duke University and he has undertaken commissioned work for British Telecom, Christies Contemporary Art, Devon County Council and Penguin Books. Andy has two works exhibited in the exhibition at the museum, Seafront I and Seafront II, both of which are available for purchase. Of Seafront I Andy said: "This is the first of two paintings of a set of oars. They are my oars, I had just bought them and wanted to paint them in all their aluminium and plastic glory; they also just happened to fit well with the stainless steel railings in the picture...Of course it is really a homage to Paulo Uccello or more precisely to his paintings of the Battle of San Romano. If I subtitled my paintings, this one would have 'Without Uccello this painting would not have been possible' in perspective lettering underneath the main title." The RI exhibition runs until August 17.