Alan Glasspool

Born: Bournemouth, UK 1981. I have been painting professionally since 2000, exhibiting my work at multiple venues nationwide and overseas. I regularly undertake commissions and I have sold approx' 40 paintings that are now with collectors across the UK and in other countries including the USA. My work consists mainly of oil paintings on canvas of either portrait work, or unusual landscapes, I also produce detailed drawings and dabble a little in 35mm/digital photography.

Within my work, I aim to convey a strong sense of emotional depth in order to provoke discussions around feelings and thoughts which may be obviously or subtlety apparent within the work as a result of external or internal influences. My works are commonly based upon the exploring of everyday emotions along with their inherent conscious and subconscious thoughts. These common themes are also apparent within most of my landscapes, in that the human presences within my works act as tools in illustrating how an individual or collective conscious is affecting the landscape around them or indeed how the landscape is affecting the human element within the work.

I regularly aim to show suppressive or uplifting elements within the landscape which address wider, mo...

Studied painting at Winchester School of Art from 2003 to 2006 and Graphic Design at The Arts Institute at Bournemouth from 2000 to 2003.

SOLO SHOWS:

'New Works & Earlier'
(14 March – 11 April 2015)
The Rookery, Faringdon, Oxfordshire

'I Will Do It Tomorrow'
(10 January – 14 February 2006)
The View exhibition space, Bridge Street,
Winchester, Hampshire.

GROUP SHOW:

'Pimp my Poe'
(25 May – 01 August 2015)
Omni Art House, Baltimore, USA

OPEN EXHIBITIONS BY PANEL:

‘Artists Show 2010’ (8 August – 19 September 2010)
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA.
(Judging Panel: Sarah Brown, Independent Curator and Associate Curator, Huddersfield Art Gallery; Rebecca Herman, Assistant Registrar, Leeds Museums & Galleries; Ted Kennedy, Independent Art & Design Consultant.

Artists Show 2009 (26 July – 31 August 2009)
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA. (Judging Panel: Jenny Hack, painting conservator, Leeds museums & galleries; Moira Innes, Curator, Leeds Met Gallery and; Sheila McGregor, Chief Executive, Axis (the on-line resource for contemporary art. 124 selected from 425)

Artists Show 2008 (12 July – 10 August 2008)
Leeds Art Gallery, The Headrow, Leeds LS1 3AA.(Judging Panel: Yvonne Carmichael, artist and curator, 42 New Briggate Gallery, Leeds; Justine Gaunt, a freelance journalist and writer based in Yorkshire and; J...