Andee Collard Self Portrait

Andee Collard

Andee Collard builds machines that paint. Not simulate painting — actually paint: real brushes dragging real oil paint across canvas under computer control, "hand-painted by machine," as he puts it. I'm pretty sure I first saw his work on Instagram, and I was instantly charmed; I love these paintings, and I've enjoyed buying them and supporting his adventure as an artist ever since — he spent two weeks as artist-in-residence at the Center for Machine Arts in Peekskill in 2023, came back for Plotterfest in 2024, and his solo "Painting with Machines" ran at the Bantam Tools Machine Art Gallery in Peekskill into January 2026, painted partly on an ArtFrame that once plotted Harold Cohen's work for the Whitney. The earliest flower paintings in this collection come from his 2020–21 "plotter paintings" period: supermarket flowers, bought partly for their cheap superficial appeal, photographed, run through software he wrote to match his own oil palette, and painted by the machine — daffodils and tulips when they were in season. Collard (b. 1979, Redhill) lives and works in Bolton, England, where he co-founded Bolton Contemporary, a community arts organization with a risograph studio that runs workshops for people with additional access needs. The wider art world caught up eventually: Lowell Ryan Projects in Los Angeles gave the machine paintings a solo show, "The Machine Garden," in 2025. He considers the machine his collaborator, and says that if he ever bumps into it accidentally, he will apologize.

Artist's website (andeecollard.com) ↗

25 physical works