Living Artists Contemporary Investment art Auction July 2024 Edition
Lot 144:
SHIPS FROM United Kingdom Can you see the image that wants to be ‘open" in this painting?It may be me wanting to wax lyrical about the nature of painting using images rather than words or it may be you that inspires the artist in opening up. Alexander was initially inspired by the Italian metaphysical still life painter Morandi and later became inured by the fantasy flavours of Chagall, the creamy impasto of Nicholas de Staehl, the innocent idiosyncrasy of Henri Rousseau and arriving latterly at a palette more reminiscent of the intensity of the Scottish Colourists. Alexander is eclectic in his use of slushy oils, chalk, powdery pigment dappled with found paper pattern, leaves and dried flowers. His visceral approach can sometimes result in an almost 3D surface including glitter, palette knife sculpting of paint and iconic chalice-like images. His landscapes shimmer, stick and swashbuckle with energy and continually bring the eye back to an unquiet holiness of surface wrestling within surface.
Condition: Good, As in the images
Dimensions: 40 x 50 cm
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