Andrew Bonnycastle is a Toronto-based national award-winning visual artist working in watercolour, and oil.

Numerous aspects of urban and rural life are explored in Andrew's works. All explorations are linked by a

common preoccupation with portraying beauty amidst disorder and life that defies adversity and isolation.

Andrew's paintings are allegories, often representing different aspects of the human condition 

expressed through portraits of individual buildings and street scenes, both rural and urban.

These are imbued with a sense of the transient, vulnerable nature of our slowly disappearing first generation buildings. 

These sublime structures that are the remnants of lives lived and journeys made are coming ever closer to

the one fell swoop of the wrecking ball. 

 Regardless of their content, all paintings by Andrew are rooted thematically in the desire to recreate experiences of

locality, place and identity. Through this recreation, Andrew strives to penetrate the forces of commercial and social

conditioning by offering works of empathy and humanity that tell a candid story about this land and its people.

Andrew is a member of various art groups including The Village Palettes Art Group and The Markham Guild of Village Crafts.

Andrew's prolific background of creative endeavours include winning the Robert Bateman Get to Know Art Contest and having a painting accepted into the Royal Ontario Museum's permanent collection. He has also been a featured artist on naturecanada.ca and has had work published in Young Voices Magazine and the Robert Bateman Get to Know Calendar.

In 2011 Andrew was the youngest artist to ever show at Toronto's Cedar Ridge Gallery.