[3] Fellow students and friends there included Victor Willing, Keith Sutton, Diana Cumming, Euan Uglow[4] and Craigie Aitchison.
He held a fellowship at the Digswell Arts Trust between February 1958 and June 1960,[5] in that period he shared a studio with Patrick Swift.
Andrews was much impressed by a visit to Ayers Rock in 1983, but the works he produced toward the end of his life are of scenes from Scotland and London.
During 1988 he served on the Board of Trustees of The National Gallery in London, but he found travelling up from Norfolk for the meetings irksome and he did not complete his full term.
Michael Andrews played a deaf-mute in Lorenza Mazzetti's Free Cinema film Together, alongside Eduardo Paolozzi (1955).