Alexandros Kapraras

ALEXANDROS KAPRARAS
14/03/1962
15 East Hill
HA9 9PT



The artist’s works consist of Drawings, Paintings, Sculptures and Installations. Much of his inspiration is drawn from life experiences, religious, spiritual, cultural influences and the subject matter itself. The coloured portraits with water drops by the artist demonstrate that. Traditional icons and frescoes of saints in the Greek Byzantine tradition are formal in composition, limited in palette of colours on a flat background. Similarly, the artist’s series of coloured portraits with water drops defining the subject are also formal and set on a bold flat wash of bright or primary colour. However, this is not a copy of the old. It uses heritage in a new, challenging and creative way, the work is almost reductive, seemingly incomplete. It invites and engages the viewer to join the dots, complete the picture. The drawing draws you in and into the finer details of each drop exquisitely drawn with ethereal qualities. The drops seems transient perhaps a comment on the transient nature of things. The same techniques were used to depict maps and flags of countries.

This need to engage, challenge and converse with the viewer is at the heart of the artist’s work. A pair of...

1993-1995 MA at Royal College of Art UK
1988-1991 Fresco and Byzantine Art
1987-1988 Sculpture
1986-1989 History of Art
1986-1991 Athens School of Fine Art