​Contemporary South African Art

James, Alexander

 

Alex James is from Bristol, UK, and moved to the Dordogne, France in 2014.

 

He studied Graphic Design at Brunel College in Bristol. He went on to do various art-related jobs, in advertising, illustration of books, and as a medical artist, sculptor and model maker.

 

Travel inspired him to start painting in his spare time. Trips to New York, South East Asia, and East and South Africa all gave him the ideas and material to work with. ‘Reflections on a Bank’ and ‘Broad and Pearl’ from his New York series were exhibited at the Royal West of England

Academy in 2004, and then at the Washington Gallery in Cardiff.

 

Alex then took the opportunity to work alongside his father, Gary James, who exhibited and sold his paintings through the Everard Read Gallery, Johannesburg, South Africa. Alex has produced a number of paintings with an African theme, which have also been exhibited and sold through the Everard Read. In 2007 and 2011 they had ‘Father and Son’ shows at the Johannesburg Gallery.

 

He works in acrylic on panel, with hand-carved cedar wood frames.

 

Ref: https://www.everardlondon.com/artist/ALEX_JAMES/biography/