Location: New Zealand
Ever since she won a colouring-in competion at 3 years of age, Alex has been addicted to art. As a child, Alex rarely was seen without a pen or pencil in hand, and at 16, whilst at Westlake Girls High, she discovered oil paints, painting a series of self portraits.
Alex attended Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland in the 90’s, where she discovered a love of texture and colour, using the palette knife a lot, to create impasto style work with pure paint (no medium). Inspired by the works of Van Gogh, Alex studied his style of artwork and life and developed her own style that has evolved over time to something unique and colourful. Tutors include Robert Ellis, Don Binney, Dick Frizzell and Phillipa Blair.
Over time Alex has been influenced by nature, creating montages with flowers, and developing a series of underwater scenes reflecting the colours and patterns of a different world under the sea. She is inspired by living things, such as people, and recently birds. Alex also enjoys painting New Zealand landscapes, especially coastal scenes. Expressing the beauty within and around us is important to her.
Check out Alex's website: www.alexrmcp.com
Alex has artworks in collections in New Zealand, Switzerland, England, Australia and USA.
Currently, Alex is a director of Thornton Gallery in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
Ever since she won a colouring-in competion at 3 years of age, Alex has been addicted to art. As a child, Alex rarely was seen without a pen or pencil in hand, and at 16, whilst at Westlake Girls High, she discovered oil paints, painting a series of self portraits.
Alex attended Elam School of Fine Art in Auckland in the 90’s, where she discovered a love of texture and colour, using the palette knife a lot, to create impasto style work with pure paint (no medium). Inspired by the works of Van Gogh, Alex studied his style of artwork and life and developed her own style that has evolved over time to something unique and colourful. Tutors include Robert Ellis, Don Binney, Dick Frizzell and Phillipa Blair.
Over time Alex has been influenced by nature, creating montages with flowers, and developing a series of underwater scenes reflecting the colours and patterns of a different world under the sea. She is inspired by living things, such as people, and recently birds. Alex also enjoys painting New Zealand landscapes, especially coastal scenes. Expressing the beauty within and around us is important to her.
Alex has artworks in collections in New Zealand, Switzerland, England, Australia and USA.
Currently, Alex is a director of Thornton Gallery in Hamilton, Waikato, New Zealand.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 150mm Width: 150mm
Price: $95.00
Kiwiana Series.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 150mm Width: 150mm
Price: $95.00
Kiwiana Series.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 250mm Width: 250mm
Price: $450.00
One thing is inevitable in life. For Andrew.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height:600mm Width: 400mm
Price: $695.00
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 250mm Width: 250mm
Price: $150.00
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 600mm Width: 1000mm
Price: $500.00
A very special place up around from 90 Mile Beach, and Ahipara. We were very lucky to have been able to have been taken in the for wheel drives by local family over the hill, at the time, as there is no longer access there. This painting is currently in Kaitaia, where all the locals know exactly where it is a painting of.
Medium: Oil on Hessian on Dartboard
Unframed Circumference: 380mm
Price: $185.00
Painted as a series of works on Dartboards for an installation.
The series was a comment on using ideals and idols as targets, how the public put our heroes on a pedastool, but constantly shoot them down. Only two paintings remain of the series.
Medium: Oil on Hessian on Dartboard
Unframed Circumference: 380mm
Price: $185.00
Painted as a series of works on dartboards with darts for an installation.
The series was a comment on using ideals and idols as targets, how the public put our heroes on a pedastool, but constantly shoot them down. Only two paintings remain of the series.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 250mm Width: 250mm
Price: $220.00
Photographed on the Barrier Reef.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 250mm Width: 250mm
Price: $160.00
Painted for Thornton Gallery's 2009 One Size Fits All Show.
“hatham Island Forget-Me-Knot"”
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 760mm Width: 510mm
Price: $600.00
This floral montage, painted from photo using the pallette knife, is of the NZ native Chatham Island Forget-me-not.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Framed Height: 570mm Width: 470mm
Price: $680.00
The humble Agapanthus is a much maligned flower, but i find it quite beautiful. I have some growing in my back garden in Hamilton, and there they can stay, one, because I love the colour, and two, I'll be damned if I'm going to try and move them! This was painted from life.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 600mm Width: 400mm
Price: $500.00
Red Hot Pokers are one of my favourite flowers, because when you are driving out in the countryside in winter, they are about the only flowers around, and make a georgous bright splash of color. The colour and textures warm the heart
Medium: Ink on Perspex
Unframed Height: 2000mm Width: 800mm
Price: $600.00
Playing cards and guns are a reflection of the pulp fiction books I was reading at the time of creating the painting, and the whole idea of discarded cards from the casino mixed with the symbolism of the Ace of Spades, death, money, and the underworld. How fragile life is.
Medium: Ink on Perspex
Unframed Height: 2000mm Width: 800mm
Price: $600.00
Playing cards and guns are a reflection of the pulp fiction books I was reading at the time of creating the painting, and the whole idea of discarded cards from the casino mixed with the symbolism of the Queen of Diamonds, money, death, and the underworld. How fragile life is
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 1410mm Width: 540mm
Price: $995.00
I Love the colour red. This piece could hang either vertically or horizontally.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: mm Width: mm
Price: $850.00
Swords, Chalices and the Pentagon.
Symbols inspired by Leonardo Da Vinci'sworks, and the the Freemasons. painted after reading the book. This was painted freehand, with no masking.
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 250mm Width: 250mm
Price: $175.00
Chillies are an old favourite of mine to paint. This version is my latest.
Medium : Oil on Canvas
Unframed Height: 400mm Width: 600mm
Price: $500.00
The patterns and colour of "Seaweed" create a juxtaposition between the restful green and the movement and dynamism in the lines.
“Paua”
“Tuatara, From the Beginning”
“Matariki Koru”
“Mortality”
“The Kereu Listens”
“Bellbird, Koromiko”
“Overlooking Tunatuna”
“James Dean”
“Marilyn”
“Sea Anemone Tentacles”
“Featherstar”
“Agapanthus”
“Red Hot Pokers 2”
“Ace of Spades”
“Queen of Diamonds”
“I See Red”
“Da Vinci Code”
“Red Hot Chilli Peppers”
“Seaweed”
