Alexander Creswell, Cliffs of Unaishu, watercolour.
Alexander Creswell, Cliffs of Unaishu, watercolour.
Watts Contemporary Gallery | Free admission
Alexander Creswell returns to Watts Contemporary Gallery, exhibiting paintings from recent travels in the Holy Land. This new collection of small watercolours are on show for the first time.
Alexander Creswell travels the world in search of places of beauty and capturing the spirit of place in astonishing watercolour paintings. Light and dark are his muses and the patina of stone, brick and earth inform his palette. His work has been likened to JMW Turner and David Roberts but his fluency with light is quite his own. Works in this exhibition explore the rock-carved architecture of Petra and the ancient stones of Jerusalem, celebrating the play of changing sunlight upon stone.