User:Andrew Dold/Sandbox

Andrew Dold (born 1969) is a contemporary artist and school teacher. He is married to Esther Dold; they have two children and live and work in Ontario,Canada.

Life and Work
At the age of 19 Dold finished his military service in the Canadian Armed Forces, after which he graduated with an Honours BFA from York University in Toronto, where he studied under Tim Whitten. Following university he and his wife went to live in Asia, where he traveled and studied photography for a number of years. He returened at age 30 and began his career as an artist. Although trained as a sculptor and painter, at the age of 32 he began to draw using coloured pencils for the first time. Between 2005 and 2006 he entered his first coloured pencil drawings in two seperate international competitions held by the Colored Pencil Society of America. His work was published in The Artist's Magazine as well as International Artist magazine due to winning both competitions. At this time he was recognised by Gerald Peters, one of the world’s most respected dealers of American art of nineteenth and twentieth centuries and was invited to show in his gallery in New York. In 2007 Prismacolor approached Dold with a view to using his award-winning picture "All is not Lost" on their new line of watercolour pencil crayons, and later that year Prismacolor introduced the product with Dold's picture on the tin. In 2007-2008 Andrew Dold's work was used by the Strathmore Hall to help promote an upcoming event of colored pencil works. Andrew Dold has also help to create several music CD covers for Cameron Austin, both in 2008 and more recently in 2010.



Since 2009, Dold has become heavly involved in culture jamming. Wanting to move away from presenting work in tradional settings, he creates murals using a variety of media on billboards, signs by the side of the road, work strapped to poles, and walls around his home town of Barrie, Ontario, and abroad.