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Alex Platt

Living the dream…..

Australian born but now living abroad,
Alex Platt is living the dream in an artist’s
paradise! In 2016 Alex moved to Rouen
in France where she is painting her
way to great recognition and becoming
a highly collectable artist. Her recent
exhibitions have been received with much
anticipation and have achieved critical
acclaim.

Since moving to France Alex’s work
has evolved, showing a balance of two
very different worlds. The raw familiarity
of homeland Australia is mixed on her
palette with the historical and cultural the artist’s inspiration is drawn from her the beautiful language of love….French!
richness of a very different and new way own colourful life. Alex has been exhibiting her art since
of life abroad.
‘My desire to physically 2004, and now in 2017 has had three
Her illustrative style is dreamlike with a paint stems from a successful French showings - in Rouen,
quirky edge of surrealism….her chosen fascination with an Osny and Paris.
medium, acrylic on canvas. Using a UNDEµNABLEÒSORTÒOFÒ In Australia, Alex’s work is available at
variety of techniques, Alex creates poetic beauty, and through Holloway Gallery in Moffat Beach on
representations of her romantic ideas and the movement, texture the Sunshine Coast. The Gallery exhibits
emotions with an almost water colour a selection of originals on canvas and
softness. and colour of paint I am
SOMETIMESÒABLEÒTOÒµNDÒ framed prints on paper.
Flowers, clocks, pencils, paint brushes, that.’ www.hollowaygallery.com.au
glass jars, bricks and quaint European
houses repeat themselves as story telling Though painting every spare minute of
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