Alex is an illustrator and portrait artist from Stroud, Gloucestershire.
She studied at Brighton and Bristol universities, graduating with a first class BA hons degree in Illustration. Alex spent many years working as a painting assistant & studio manager for international contemporary artists. She returned to her home town of Stroud to pursue her own career as an artist.
Her illustrations & portraiture combine her technical skills with a gentle wit and an irrepressible delight in observing humanity and the world around her in all its colourful and surprising variety. Her starting point is often colour – setting the mood and building a dream-like world of fantasy and magic around the subject matter. A big influence has been her active association with the music, dance and ritual of the English Folk world. Alex’s art taps into this imaginative and elemental cultural landscape.
Creativity has always been there in her family - her mother, sister and brother are all artists and her father a vicar - so being connected to the humour, stories and memories of childhood continues to be a mainspring for her artistic imagination.
Photo by Katie Jane Watson https://www.katiejanewatson.com