Alex KELLY ~ Still Life/Flowers ✿

Alex Kelly is a British realist painter specializing in a range of subjects including landscape, still life, floral, portrait and figurative.

Alex kelly was born In Ireland and came to England at an early age. Being the youngest of seven boys the family home was full of music and books, which influenced his early artistic endeavours. He copied the work of masters of both classical and contemporary art from Leonardo da Vinci to Frank Frazetta.

In your college years he had a strong affinity for both science and art and initially followed a university degree in science but later he decided to pursue an artistic career and consequently gained in Fine Art specialising in sculpture in 1993.

He wented on to set up a studio making ceramic sculpture, as well as teaching art at schools and community colleges. He later gained a HNC in graphic design and worked for many years as a graphic designer. Currently he is developing a new body of work, primarily oil paintings in the alla prima manner.
Currently lives and works in Birmingham, UK.