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Michael Andrews of Harrison, Arkansas
will be exhibiting during the month of
September at the Palette Art League's
Fine Art Gallery, in the main gallery.

"Sometimes I think I was born drawing",
says, Michael Andrews, when asked
when he began drawing, "I don't
remember being without some kind of
pencil and paper in my hand." Micheal
Andrews, a lifelong resident of Harrison,
Arkansas, began his artistic career
after graduating high school by
attending the Kansas City Art Institute.
Andrews returned to Harrison to take a
job as the staff artists for a church
furniture company where Michael
designed the prayer chapel for the New
York World's Fair. Andrews did free
lance artwork for newspapers, print
shops, magazines and a theme park,
"Dogpatch U.S.A.", but it wasn't the type
of art he really wanted to do.

In 1984 Michael and wife Kay, turned
their attention to working together full
time creating fine art. Commissioned
work of portraits, paintings of the
working ranch cowboy and the culture of
the Ozarks became the subjects of his
artwork. In the beginning there was very
little understanding of the complexities
of the career they were attempting.
Michael Andrews had some knowledge
of the commitment it demanded but had
very little idea of how to best pursue it.
Andrews feels it was with God's grace,
hard work, a little luck and wife Kay's
support, that his artwork has come such
a long way.

"I feel privileged to get up each day and create something that makes people
smile," says Michael.

Andrews has exhibited in numerous places and shows; National Cowboy
Symposium, Lubbock Texas; Phippen Memorial Western Art Show, Prescott
Arizona; The Fine Art Guild of the Rockies, Estes Park, Colorado; Working
Ranch Cowboy Association, Amarillo Texas; National Wildlife and Western
Show, Overland Park Kansas; Western Heritage Classic Art Show, Abilene
Texas; Cheyenne Frontier Days, Cheyenne Wyoming; Texas and
Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association, Fort Worth Texas; The commission
artist for Arkansas Ducks Unlimited; Artist for the Arkansas Sheriffs'
Association. Andrews has been the winner of the first Will Rogers Award
presented by the National Academy of Western Artists for the Cowboy Artist of
the Year.