Creative Contemplation
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Creative Contemplation
Alex Cree; Painting with Imagination from Lived Experience
April 21, 2025
Creative Contemplation
S4E1 Alex Cree; Painting with Imagination from Lived Experience
Suzanne Lago Arthur, host and creator of The Creative Contemplation Podcast converses with British painter, Alex Cree about his training in observationally based, representational painting and how he broke away from a more traditionally realist approach in order to find his own true artistic voice.
Website: alexcree.co.uk
Instagram: @alexjcree
Galleries:
Tregony Contemporary, Cornwall England U.K.
Fraser Gallery, St. Andrews Scotland U.K.
Grandy Art, London England U.K.
Alex's Favorite Sketching Pencil
Bio:
Alex Cree has shown extensively throughout the United Kingdom, Spain and Ireland, including: London's Trinity House Paintings, Mall Galleries, Dulwich Picture Gallery, British Museum, RA summer show and the Solomon Gallery in Dublin. Alex is now based in Dorset where he has his studio. In 2002 he was awarded the Sidney Cooper prize for drawing, in 2010 the Denis Mahon scholarship from the Royal Drawing School and in 2012 he received the Phyllis Roberts award from the Royal Institute of Oil Painters.
Host Bio:
Suzanne Lago Arthur is a contemporary realist painter from Northern Virginia. Born in Puerto Rico to Cuban-American parents, her artistic explorations were nurtured from an early age by her family.
Through her paintings Suzanne explores the themes of beauty, transience and memory. She has exhibited both nationally and internationally in such venues as the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Art Museum of the Americas in Washington DC, Booth Museum of Western Art in Cartersville, GA, the United States Interests Section, Havana, Cuba and in art galleries across the United States. She holds a BFA from the Corcoran School of Art and an MA in Museum Studies from George Washington University.
Website: www.lagoarthurstudio.com
Instagram: Suzanne Lago Arthur (@lagoarthurstudio)
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