|
Exhibition by Graham Alexander
The ArtistAfter a career in engineering, Graham Alexander trained as a painter at Chelsea and the Slade in the 1970s, and has been making paintings ever since. He has exhibited widely. The artist writes "Painting is part of my daily life… it is about risk-taking… doubts and fears included… it does not depend on whether or not the result is pleasant to look at, on whether or not it looks 'nice' or 'good', but is much more to do with a quest for meaning that remains elusive, hard to fix… as a practising counsellor [partly in a secondary school] I notice similarities between the therapeutic process and the painting process. Desire is never fully satisfied which leads to a different, temporary resolution. Only change is guaranteed." Graham's images, which are often on an intimate scale, combine material and structural robustness with a brooding, tantalising quality that makes you want to return to them again and again. They will be on show at the LCP until March.
|
