LXM Artist profile
Alex McPherson
LXM Artist is Alex McPherson
BFA Elam School of Fine Arts
University of Auckland
Why Paint?
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My art is representative and expresses the enjoyment of nature and life. I try and capture the universality of love through art.
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It is a sensory experience. There is a spirituality in the painting process. I believe in the right to life and exist in this world and beyond.
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I try to capture more than just a likeness in my figurative paintings. The 'birdness' of a bird or the essence of a creature.
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The use of enhanced colour, like a cobalt sky and an ultramarine sea is evident in a landcape.
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Shell and Nature Series respect the previous inhabitants of what are vessels, found washed up on a beach. Things of beauty in their own right - the soul moved on to another realm, and reveal the object left behind.
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I exist therefore I paint.
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It is my language,
my craft.