The Redcliffe Edit
North Yorkshire, England
Andrea Mosey came to painting by a winding route. Her first career took her around the world with the RAF in air traffic control; later, after starting a family, she moved into learning and development in the corporate world. It was the stillness of the 2020 lockdowns that changed everything — time to reflect led her, in 2021, to take the leap into life as a full-time artist. Life, as she puts it, has never been the same.
Based in North Yorkshire, Andrea paints the landscape on her doorstep: vast open skies, sweeping horizons, and the ever-changing drama of cloud and light. She works primarily in oils — smaller pieces often alla prima, in a single sitting, larger canvases built up in layers with both brush and palette knife. She gathers reference photographs of skies and weather, then sets them aside, letting memory and imagination carry the mood of the finished piece.
Alongside the oils she works in encaustic wax, a slower and more meditative medium. Each painting is built from twenty or more layers of molten wax — beeswax from a local North Yorkshire beekeeper, blended with damar resin and pigment — fused layer by layer with a blowtorch into a surface with real depth and luminosity. The results are more abstract, but they carry the same feeling for place, mood and memory.
A full-time artist for only a few years, Andrea's work has already found a wide and devoted following. She won the British Contemporary Art Award by public vote in 2023, and her paintings are now collected across the UK and internationally. For all the turns her path has taken, she describes what drives the work very simply.
“It's all about connection, really — to the landscape, to the materials I use, and to the people who find meaning in my paintings.”Andrea Mosey
A selection of Andrea's recent paintings — three oils and one encaustic — capturing the big skies and shifting light of the North Yorkshire landscape.
Andrea's skies live or die on subtlety. Soft gradients of cloud and light, the slow shift from a luminous horizon up into weather — it all has to read smoothly in print, with no banding and nothing going flat. Her encaustic work adds another challenge: depth and translucency built from layer upon layer of wax, which a print has to honour rather than dull.
She has trusted us with her fine art prints since 2021, and her brief is a simple one — the prints should hold the same quality, and receive the same care, as the original paintings. For her editions we print on Hahnemühle Photo Rag, a smooth 100% cotton paper that carries those soft gradients of cloud and light without a hint of banding.
Matt smooth 100% cotton · Group A
“It's important to me that my fine art prints are the same quality and receive the same attention as my original paintings. This is why I've used Redcliffe since 2021 — I can rely on them for a consistent, quality product and excellent service.”Andrea Mosey
If you're an artist or photographer who wants prints that hold the same quality and care as your originals, we'd love to help. Start with a sample, or get in touch and let's talk about your work.