About

In my late teens I discovered my passion for painting to express myself creatively and that passion has never left me. I still believe life is more beautiful with colour and richer with expressive art decorating your walls.

While I continue to explore the textures and colours of the Cornish landscape my work has evolved and become more abstract, more to do with expressing the sensation of elemental forces and intensity of light.

My early life was spent in London and then Oxford before travelling extensively. I lived in New York in the early 1980s while I pursued my modelling career and that is where my paintings were exhibited for the first time. After absorbing the the colours of Africa and the vastness of Australia, I moved to St Ives in 1995 and opened my own studio gallery. 

Now in my purpose built studio, just fifteen minutes from St Ives, my work is less concerned with the depiction of specific places, but incorporating the memory and the emotion of these places and allowing a wider range of subject matter.

Over the years my work has developed, become more etherial, more sensual, offering the viewer the pleasure of discovery.

Painting, for me, is always an exhilarating adventure and I am so grateful to be able to spend my time doing something I love. “Do what you love, and you will never work a day in your life”. Indulging my passion for colour, light, texture, being impulsive, being creative, being experimental, being authentic, is being who I want to be. 

My St Ives Gallery is open a couple of times a year and my studio is open by appointment for you to view available paintings or discuss a commission. 

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All best wishes, 

Alexandra