Alexander has been a leading pioneer in working with the arts in business for over 25 years. Alexander combines his early careers in education and social work with his business consultancy coaching and has created a dynamic experiential approach within the world of corporate leadership development. His seminal approach to combining the creative and strategic orientation of left and right brain preference within the context of personal development has been widely adopted and promulgated internationally. Alexander’s unique combination of working dynamically with mind, body, and spirit, holistically weaving artistic thinking with pragmatic business goals, has set him apart as a consultant and coach in senior management personal leadership development in a career that has spanned decades.
Alongside his business career, Alexander has been a painter for over forty years. After initially attending Goldsmith Art College in London in his twenties, he joined a community of artists for several years before going solo on a private path for his art, and only coming ‘up for air’ from time to time to exhibit his work.
Alexander was initially inspired by the Italian metaphysical still life painter Morandi and later became inured by the fantasy flavors of Chagall, the creamy impasto of Nicholas de Staehl, the innocent idiosyncrasy of Henri Rousseau, and arriving latterly at a palette more reminiscent of the intensity of the Scottish Colourists. Alexander is eclectic in using slushy oils, chalk, and powdery pigment dappled with found paper patterns, leaves, and dried flowers. His visceral approach can sometimes result in an almost 3D surface including glitter, palette knife sculpting of paint, and iconic chalice-like images. His landscapes shimmer, stick, and Swashbuckle with energy and continually bring the eye back to an unquiet holiness of surface wrestling within the surface.
About 10 years ago, Alexander completed a Master in Fine Art at the University of Birmingham, where he decided to take a more definite and outward-facing step in his art. This was followed by a Masters in Illustration at Edinburgh University which he completed this year with a distinction. During his degree, he has written and illustrated several books for both children and adults which have been published by Tecassia Publishing UK, as well as by Superlux in Denmark and Erzaehlverlag in Germany. For his painting work, Alexander is represented by The Scottish Artists Gallery.
Alexander’s core value of passionate integrity is reflected in his ambition to support individual artists who want to make a creative difference in the world.
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