About the Artist

Alex started his career as a painter at the fine art department of Christchurch College in Canterbury where he became interested in the big pre-occupations of figurative painting: colour, form and light.

In 2002, after graduating with a first class degree, he threw himself into painting full time. In 2004 he spent a year in Barcelona and then six months in County Sligo, Ireland, where landscapes were his main focus. Upon returning to England Christchurch College invited him to be their artist in residence. During this year Alex painted mainly in his studio and the life-room.

In 2007 he moved to London to study at The Prince of Wales Drawing School in Shoreditch where he received a postgraduate diploma. He is now the studio technician at the same school and has a studio in Brixton.

Alex is veering more and more towards painting from the imagination but is still struggling with those same pre-occupations: colour, form and light.


Exhibitions

Solo Exhibitions:

2006 Moignes Court, Dorchester, Dorset (2nd Moigne Biennial)

2004 Moignes Court, Dorchester, Dorset (A Year in Barcelona)

Joint Exhibitions:

2009 Battersea Affordable Art Fair, Autumn

2009 Dorset Extraveganza, Sherborne School, Dorset

2009 Grafick Gallery, Portobello Rd, London

2009 Summerleaze Gallery, Wiltshire

2008 “Cara a Cara”, The Untiltled Gallery, Barcelona

2008 Threadneadle exhibition, Mall Galleries, London

2008 Opening show, Lefort Gallery, Bath

2007 End of year shows, Prince of Wales Drawing school, Shoreditch (drawings-Oct, paintings-Sept)

2007 Out With In, La Galleria, Pall Mall

2006 Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Gallery

2006 Autumn Show, Castle Upton Gallery, Belfast

2005 Lauderdale House, Highgate, London

2005 Drawing Exhibition, Coloured Rain Gallery, Belfast

2005 Autumn Show, Castle Upton Gallery, Belfast

2004 Corn Exchange, Dorchester, Dorset (Artituk.com)

2004 Christmas Show, Solomon Gallery, Dublin

2004 Moignes Court, Dorchester, Dorset (Artituk.com)

2003 The Atrium Gallery , Bournemouth University

2002 The Lennox Gallery, Chelsea, London (Artituk.com)

2002 The Mall Gallery, Pall Mall, London (Degree Show)

2002 Canterbury Christ Church University College

2001 Axminster Arts Café (Artituk.com)

2001 Pangbourne College, Reading (Artituk.com)


Teaching

Alex teaches evening drawing classes at the Crown and Greyhound pub in Dulwich. He also teaches school children in Camberwell