Alan S Skyrme

Birds. And Nature. These are the subjects that inspire me.
At an early age I loved exploring hedgerows and streams. Teeming with diverse life, they fascinated me.
My appreciation of flora and fauna broadened, through travel, to include birds, plants, animals and insects, though birds were always special.
I am a British artist and photographer based in Brazil. My nomadic life began in Libya, where I was born, and has taken me to live in 15 countries on 5 continents, visiting 40 or more other countries in my lifetime.
Places as diverse as deserts, rainforests and the concrete jungles of city life have been home to me.
I remain a keen traveller focusing on commercial Travel / Food photography and writing in addition to painting. 

While most of my paintings are in watercolour I also paint in other media. I would describe my style as loose/tight as I like to balance a degree of looseness against the detail found in the key elements of a bird's genus. My aim is to make them recognisable while retaining an element of artistic impressionism.

Having studied Art and History of Art at school in UK my preferences migrated to photographic art - with emphasis on monochrome. I gave up developing my own film images in the early 1990s and moved to digital capture in 2002.
I have taught both painting and photography though no longer do so.

Held 2 solo photographic exhibitions in Brazil in 2004, entitled Sacred Lands of the Incas, at Rosacruz, Curitiba and LBV, Brasilia, that featured a selection of Inca-themed images captured in Peru and Bolivia.

Future Shows: Nothing organised at present