Rowan Gallery

 

 

Summary

Seascapes, Sunny Beaches, Cottages and Flowers executed in lush and vigorous layers of paint.  Impressionistic in style. Brimming with life. Already quoted as being one of Scotland’s leading painters.

 

Alexandra Steele was born and educated in Scotland. Prior to becoming a full-time painter, she was employed as a specialist art teacher for more than 25 years in Central Scotland schools. Her roots are from the North of Scotland, where she spent much of her childhood on her grandparent’s croft, developing a love of nature and the land.

 

Her main themes are inspired by these childhood experiences. Deserted beaches of remote islands and thatched cottages. She is particularly drawn to the luminescent skies and seas of the West Coast where the colours and light inspire her seascape paintings.

 

From June to September she visits the Highlands and islands to sketch and take hundreds of reference photographs for her work.  Her canvases are rich in texture, using only a palette knife to create multiple layers of paint as she builds her evocative compositions. Her signature palette of cool tones carefully placed side by side, like lively handwriting, merge to recall the remote and lonely scenes of Scotland’s West Coast.

 

Alexandra lives in Stirlingshire where her studio looks out onto a large garden filled with flowers, herbs and fruit trees. Here she gathers flowers to paint her still life canvases.Her palette here is strong and bright 

 

Solo Exhibitions

The New Grafton Gallery 2003

The Russell Gallery 2004

The Russell Gallery 2007

Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton 2008

The Russell Gallery 2009

 

Annual Group Exhibitions

 

The Hicks Gallery, Wimbledon

Russell Gallery, Putney

Broadway Modern, Broadway 

Contemporary Fine Art Gallery, Eton

Annan Gallery, Glasgow

The Leith Gallery, Edinburgh 

Blues and Greens, North Berwick 

Rowan Gallery, Helensburgh 

Heron Gallery, Pittenweem

Art Forum, Milngavie

Torrance,Gallery, Edinburgh

 

In addition, her work can be found in private Collections in America, Canada & Australia, the Corporate Collection, Arisaig Holdings, and in Hong Kong.

Her product licensees include Dunoon Pottery (Bone China Mugs), Canns Down Press (Greeting Cards),The Art Company (Prints & Canvases) and Stewarts Edinburgh (Calenders)