Alexander Heaton

Alexander Heaton's work reaches deep into the imagination, searching for mans most primeval interaction with nature. His paintings attempt to capture that first interaction, and the sense of wonder and spirituality as humanity confronts omnipresence. Alex works from experience, researching and conducting studies in remote natural settings. Through long and meaningful communion with nature his many drawings and paintings assert the inherent worth of deep spiritual reflection and recognise union with land and the elements. He also uses cut up techniques to sample found photography from retro mountaineering literature to journey to some of the more extream places on the canvas that he has not personally been able to visit. Alex often draws upon mystical experiences and noetic connections to illustrate in paint the words of the divine presence felt in the places he chooses to depict. He draws upon such wells of references as shamanism, mythology, gnosticism, extreme sports, and ecstatic mountain lore.

Landscape Artist

As a mountaineer Alex, studies and researches themes directly. He often thinks nothing of walking and climbing to remote places in the Himalaya or Alps just to cast an eye on his artistic muse – "I am the lonely figur...

Central Saint Martins School of Fine Art BA (Hons) Fine Art.
Cleveland College of Art and Design BTEC Diploma Foundation Studies.

Residencies:

2023 Sagarmatha Next -Nepal.

2020 The Florence Trust - London.

Selected Solo Exhibitions:

2023 Sagarmatha Next - Waste to Art, Namchee Bazar, Nepal.

2015 Project Thin Air - The Residence Gallery, London.
2013 Do the Ravens Still Circle the Mountaintop? – VJB Arts 10 Gresham Street, London.
2011 The Secret of the Runes - Pulse Art Fair, Miami.
2011 Trebuchet - The Residence Gallery, London.
2010 Abyssal Wolpertinger - Medcalf Gallery, London.
2009 Harz – Clarke Gallery, Berlin.
2007 The Horn That Matters – The Empire Gallery, London.
2006 Alpine Retreat of the A14 –Union Arts Club London.
2004 The Uncontrollable Urge to fly – Primitif Gallery, London


Selected Group Exhibitions
2024 Everest Revisited - Rheged, Penrith.

2022 The Cure is worse than the (alleged) disease, Secret Art Gallery, London

2018 Voids Rage Chimera Bloom - A Side B Side Gallery, London.

2017 Modern Panic 8 - Apairy Studios, London
2017 As it Stands: Unrefined, muted, abandoned - Hundred Years Gallery, London.
2017 Summer Salon - Islington Arts Factory, London.
2013 60% Water – James Freeman Gallery, London.
2013 Busan Art Fair – Busan, South Korea.
2012 Space Rage – The Residence Gallery, London.
2012 London Art Fair – Residence Gal...