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 the remotest 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 elements. He often draws upon mystical experiences and noetic connections with Logos 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 figure lured by mountains, dark forests, alpine skies and forbidding ravines." The paintings look out from dreamy summits and contemplate the beyond. Through his canvases he continues on the Romanti...

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

Exhibitions:

Selected Solo Exhibitions

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

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 Gallery, London.
2011 Wunderkammer - Clarke Gallery, Bermingham/Berlin/New York/Sydney/St Johns.
2010 The Future Can Wait - Ellis Rumley Projects, London.
2010 Happiness Machines - Rise Gallery, Berlin.
2009 Splashback - Clarke Gallery, Berlin.
2009 Perfect Present - Stable Productions, 242 Gallery, London.
2009 The London Art F...