Alex’s paintings are informed by images of architectural forms, land formations and objects within those spaces.

Quick gestures, marks and movements are pushed into or wiped out of a still wet painted surface.  When these brush strokes are dry and set, the structural elements are redrawn, highlighted or coloured in.

This act of drawing into the painted marks, is a meditative slowing down, re-exploring the composition and the intentionality.

His work operates as a circular process or a duality of gesture and geometry; on the one hand quick and organic, and the other a slowed stutter through the properties of space and movement.

Many of his works are titled with words such as Grmpf, Beuk, or Ggnn. 

His interest in the abstract word, and the arbitrary visual combinations of letters in the word, can relate to painting and the uncertain relationships between figurative representation and abstraction.

This use of non-words, slang, or hybrid words, reflects a challenge he experiences with language.   A disconnect between the brain and verbalising dialogue; a jarring, or frustrating experience, that the titles says something about, but also relates to painting as an uncertain and ever shifting experience of language and space.