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Alexandra Dickens
For over forty years I have been passionate about painting to express myself creatively. Throughout a career as a fashion model, strutting the catwalks of London and New York, and my years as a restaurateur, I taught myself about painting techniques. After travelling extensively, absorbing the colours of Africa, the vastness of Australia and the buzz of New York, I opened my studio gallery in St Ives Cornwall in 1995. I’ve exhibited extensively over the years but having my own gallery enabled me to be as creative and experimental as I wished.
Creating is always an exhilarating adventure and I’m so grateful to be able to do it. I can’t call it work, it is never work, it is indulging my passion. So flooding my studio with music I love, I paint, overlaying colours, building up layers and texture then scraping back, adding whatever I need to create the painting I want to paint.
Over the years my work has evolved my seascape paintings have become more etherial and sensual, more abstracted. They evoke a sense of place, distilling the essence of raw irrepressible nature, rather than a depicting it. My aim is to always create something, authentic and original. Not something that is pretentious or full of hidden meaning but something that expresses my enthusiasm and passion for painting, something the viewer can enjoy.
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Exhibitions Include
Courlander Gallery, Richmond Surrey
Taurus Gallery, Oxford
Lander Gallery, Truro
Gallery One0two, London
Art Life, Devon
Nicholas Hagen Fine Art, London
Sanmar Gallery, USA
Lennox Gallery, London
Modern Artists Gallery, Whitchurch on Thames
Kennedy Gallery, Provincetown USA
Galerie Pelar, New York, USA
Wills Art Warehouse, London
Croft Wingates, Market Harborough
Big Wide Bay, Tavistock
The Westbourne Gallery, London
The 28th Street Gallery, New York
Corporate Commissions Include
Brooks and Jeal, Wadebridge (5 paintings for boardroom and offices)
Gonwin Manor, Carbis Bay (37 paintings for 6 holiday cottages)
Risk Analysis, London (6 paintings for boardroom and offices)
Lovell, London (triptych for reception area)
Browns Wine Bar and Bistro, Sidmouth (3 large paintings for the restaurant)
The Zone Hotel, Newquay (triptych for the restaurant)
Pooleys Chartered Accountants, Truro (9 paintings for boardroom and offices)
Excel Centre, London (150 paintings up to 6'x6' for the conference rooms)
Porthmeor Beach Café St Ives Cornwall (8 paintings 8'x8')
TNA Europe, Birmingham (70 paintings from up to 12’x5')