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The Freedom Collection

A gathering of paintings about space and the joy of roaming.
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Like Fiction

Completed in March this year, Like Fiction, has
its roots in journeys on foot in the countryside
during winter, whilst I was training for a half
marathon. It is a response to the dreaminess of
damp light, the muscly-ness and light bursts of
winter clouds against dull gold fields and the
dark grey and brown tones of naked trees. It is
running up hills and across fields with the wind
full in my face and chill, exhilarated skin.

The texture of the raised gesso contrasts with Like Fiction, 2020, £3000 / $4000
polished smooth absences, it feels as though 100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches
these thicker and thinner areas parallel the This piece is currently unframed.
texture of clouds. Those moments where the Shipping not included.
sunlight is suppressed under denser cloud and
then seems to burst through, vivid and glowing.
Like Fiction named itself just as we went into
lockdown.

Chromatic Grey Skies

I have an obsession with grey skies in winter.
Every year I try to capture the sense of
exhilaration and freshness I feel when out
running with these skies. They seem full of
wild possibilities. They play games with the
wind and race and break apart and glow.

Completed in February this year, Chromatic
Grey Skies, is expansive with wildness and
wonder.

Chromatic Grey Skies, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches
This piece is currently unframed.
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Grey Skies Change

Grey Skies Change, is on the cusp of spring. It is
when the wildness softens slightly. It is the time
of year when I am eagerly watching naked
branches, like a cheerleader for every
whispering of green.

The countryside is about to become verdant, the

green fuse beginning… but not just yet. This

painting began before we could see the leaves

budding, whilst the trees were still dreaming up

their possibilities. It evolved as little lime balls

appeared. And bit by bit as the world turned

almost emerald, the birds sang louder. This Grey Skies Change, 2020,
painting is in seasonal celebration and £3000 / $4000
gratitude. 100 x 150 x 3.2cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches

This piece is currently unframed.

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Like Breathing / Like Flying

Like Breathing / Like Flying diptych is
about being up high on the moors,
walking for miles as the sun shines. It is
the freedom of a sense of space, of being
able to see into the distance and
experience the joy of solitude.

There is no one else for miles.

Just you, the larks and the blue sky
dancing with the clouds.

Like Breathing / Like Flying, 2020,
£3000 / $4000
Ink + gesso on poplar ply, each painting 76 x 86 x
5.5cm 29.52 x 33.46 framed.
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Look up to catch comets + Do not
trouble to head anywhere but the sky

I first encountered the poem ‘Of Mutability’ by
Jo Shapcott in 2004 whilst I was working for
the Birmingham Book Festival. Written when
the poet was undergoing treatment for cancer,
the poem feels like a roar of hope in the midst of
difficulties. For me, it is an instruction to seize
the life we have with all its magic and wonder
and ‘do not trouble to head anywhere but the
sky’.

I return to this poem whenever I need a shot of Look up to catch comets + Do not trouble
perspective, or courage, or just to delight in the to head anywhere but the sky
vibrant joy of the second stanza. Last summer £6000 / $8000
the poem wouldn’t leave me alone, knocking Each painting 156 x 100 x 5.5 cm | 61.41 x 41.7 x
against my skull in every waking moment. So as 2.1 inches framed
I walked late into summer twilight, these Shipping not included.
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Learning to Breathe

This painting is about the connection between
air, body, breath and space. It is to do with the
feeling of inhalation | exhalation - the expansive
stretch that happens in body, mind, spirit.

Like much of my work the painting straddles
simile, drawing on skyscape to describe a state
of mind or being. It is not a specific place, they
never are.

Learning to Breathe, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
106 x 156 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed.
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8 Miles with Sky

Late summer moving into autumn, this painting
is recently harvested fields and the scent of
dusty earth, sun mingled, with recent rain.

It is the billowing moment when the earth’s heat
has evaporated upwards into rumbling sky.

There is the stir of wind, crisp stubby grasses
under foot, damp oats and flashes of vivid blue.

8 Miles with Sky, 2019,
£3000 / $4000
106 x 156 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Red Morning I

Part of a series of paintings inspired by a
process of rising in the dark and walking
through the dawn. It holds the memory of
crackling wind in January, the screeching of
owls and the leaping bounds of muntjac deer
disturbed by human presence.

The title references the rhyme “Red sky in the
morning is a shepherd’s warning, red sky at
night is a shepherd’s delight”. They are a fierce
response to Brexit and contain a sense of
foreboding. There is tension yet it is possible the
sky will still brighten.

Red Morning I, 2019,
£2500 / $3500
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Red Morning II

Part of a series of paintings inspired by a Red Morning II, 2019,
process of rising in the dark and walking £2500 / $3500
through the dawn. 126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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This painting is the experience of leaving the
cover of dark woodland to come out into the
light. It is catching my breath as the glowing sky
illuminates the trees and fields. It is unreality,
part daydream and magic.

The title references the rhyme “Red sky in the
morning is a shepherd’s warning, red sky at
night is a shepherd’s delight”. This second
painting is still a fierce response to Brexit. The
pale golds feel more hopeful whilst the curve of
the land and trees is odd and uncomfortable.



Red Morning I and II diptych, 2019, £5000 / $7000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed per painting
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Restfulness of light

This painting is a homage to a particular field. I
used to pass it on my way to and from the
studio. It was always gentle and often seen in
the gloaming half light of dusk and dawn. I
loved the redness of turned earth and the sense
of possibility in looking towards its edges into
the sky.

The restfulness of light, 2016,
£3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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The restfulness of light, 2017, £2350 / $3000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed (marine ply surface)
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Red Kite
Calling

This painting is special. It encompasses a
moment of discovering a particular way of
working with materials to build up a patina - the
cloud is saturated, muscly with inky layers. The
blue buzzes. It feels like a window into air and
freedom - with just enough land to put your feet
on.

Red Kite Calling, 2018, £3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Winter Rust, 2018, £3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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The buzz of yellow fields and indigo skies, 2018,£3000 / $4000
126 x 106 x 5.5cm | 41.7 x 61.41 inches framed
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Sizes and pricing guide

Prices are for unframed paintings on birch surfaces

20 x 40cm | 8 x 16 inches £550 | $725
40 x 60cm | 15.74 x 23.62 inches £960 | $1250
50 x 90cm | 19.68 x 35.4 inches £1250 | $1850
70 x 80cm | 25.43 x 31.49 inches £1475 | $2250
80 x 90cm | 31.49 x 35.43 inches £1650 | $2200
60 x 120cm | 23.62 x 47.24 inches £1850 | $2300
80 x 110cm | 33.46 x 45 inches £2000 | $2500
100 x 120cm | 41.3 x 49.2 inches £2500 $3500
100 x 150cm | 39.8 x 59.1 inches £3000 | 4000
Framing typically adds 8cm | 3.14 inches to dimensions.
Quotes for framing available on request.
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About Alex: liquid gesso using a brush, palette knife and rags.
Using sandpaper, wire wool and wood carving
Working as a professional artist since 2007, I tools I also carve into the gesso. The ink is
currently paint from a studio in Hertfordshire, pushed into it and lifted again to reveal layered
UK. marks.

The paintings offer spaces of deep listening, For the viewer, the works invite a shift in
embodied reflection and transportation for the perspective often providing space to breathe.
viewer. They are an invitation to breathe more
deeply, to be alert and present, to step out of the What have other people said?
mental noise of everyday life.
“You’re offering peace”, conversation with
The Process: collector 2019.

The paintings are typically made using light fast “Turner redone by Rothko”, Visitor to The Other
acrylic ink and traditional gesso ground on birch, Art Fair, Brooklyn, 2019
poplar or marine ply. I draw outside in order to
be immersed in looking at the world around “A Rough British Wilderness Vibe” Visitor to The
me.“Fast photographs” are used to snatch Other Art Fair, Victoria House, London, UK 2018
moments and colours. Long distance walking,
running and cycling helps me observe changes of “Moments of reverie and the finding of
light, land and sky through my body. The making sanctuary” Visitor to The Other Art Fair,
process itself is then a conversation with surface Victoria House, London, UK, 2018
and materials through accidents, play,
construction and destruction. I build up the
surface by “blind painting” (white on white) with

When you buy the right painting for your home, it’s like living with a
friend. You build a relationship with each other over time and that
companionship is for life.

More paintings are available in different sizes and prices.

To discuss a purchase or arrange a studio visit get in contact via
[email protected] / 07866 734 920.