Imagination is of triple interest to me. Hello, I’m Andy Maitland, an artist, author, and spiritual director (biblical tradition) living in the South of England.
As an artist, working exclusively on the iPad since 2011, I have exhibited and collaborated with organisations including Apple, the Royal Horticultural Society, the London Symphony Orchestra and the V&A.
I’m the author of The Digital Garden® and An Imagined Garden One, both of which explore the garden, augmented reality and architecture, as a place where perception, creativity, and awareness meet.
Alongside my creative work, I serve as a spiritual director, accompanying people as they listen for God’s presence in their own stories. My principal formation and training were with Dr Larry Crabb (2002/3/6) in the US.
Much of my work grows out of a life-long fascination with imagination: not as escape or fantasy, but as a way of paying attention more deeply to life, to God, and to the world we actually inhabit. I’ve spent most of my working life in creative industries as a graphic designer working in digital design and marketing, alongside involvement in church leadership. That combination has given me a grounded sense of how faith, creativity, and everyday life overlap in practice.
All of this work is held together by a simple conviction:
"Imagination’s true purpose is not invention but revelation"¹
“Faith, hope, prophesy, trust and relationship all require imagination."¹
More, coming soon.
1 Book - Andy Maitland, iPad drawings, An Imagined Garden One, from figurative to abstraction 2011-22.
