Alex McArthur

Sheffield is the adopted home of contemporary painter and printmaker Alex McArthur and where she has established her art practice in drawing, painting and printmaking. Skies, trees, water and the landscape tradition have inspired her for as long as she can remember. Her paintings and prints are where memories and imagination merge in wide open spaces and the natural world. Strong contrasts are present in her work; stillness and movement, space and restriction, colour and monochrome, form and abstraction.
Key influences in her childhood ensured that the twists and turns of life have kept her on a creative path. The rugged landscape and drama of the Irish North Coast were her playground and where she made her first drawings trying to copy the example of an uncle who was a water colourist. The recent restrictions led Alex to focus more on her immediate surroundings; walking daily in the ancient woodlands in and around Sheffield resulted in a collection of paintings and monotypes of trees and skies.
After a creative 10 years in Art and Design education and educational publishing Alex completed a Masters in Fine Art and now maintains a practice in painting and printmaking. She is presently involved in making cyanotypes and experimenting with wood block printing.
Alex has exhibited her work at home and abroad and early in 2020 had her first solo show.

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