ALEXANDER CRESWELL
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Alexander Creswell Biography
Alexander Creswell is an internationally acclaimed British artist born in 1957, best known for the watercolours he painted for the Royal Collection depicting the fire and restoration of Windsor Castle. His distinctive style in watercolour, completely self taught, combines subtle colouring and skilful draughtsmanship with a strong reverence for natural light. Creswell has painted a series of spectacularly big watercolours, which at three metres in length, are possibly the largest ever painted.
Creswell has a natural fluency with his medium which coupled with his extraordinary knowledge of architecture and history makes his paintings timeless and captivating.
| 1957 | Born Helsinki, Finland | |
| Education: | Winchester College, England | |
| Byam Shaw School of Drawing & Painting, London | ||
| West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham | ||
| 1991-99 | Tutor at The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture, London | |
| 1998 | Official Artist on HRH The Prince of Wales's Tour of Central Europe |
Clubs and Associations:
Awarded the 2008 Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition (Fine Arts), New York
I.N.T.B.A.U. (International Network for Traditional Building, Architecture & Urbanism)
Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America, New York
Art Workers' Guild, London
Port Navas Yacht Club, Cornwall, UK
Bentley Drivers Club
Public Exhibitions Include:
| 2003 | Re-presenting Representation, Arnot Art Museum, New York | |
| 2002 | Royal Treasures - A Golden Jubilee Celebration, The Queen's Gallery, Buckingham Palace, London | |
| 2001 | In Ruins - Artists & Ruins, The Holburne Museum of Art, Bath | |
| 1997 | Discerning Eye, Mall Galleries, London |
Solo Exhibitions Include:
| 2008 | Looking Through, Majlis Gallery, Dubai | |
| 2006 | Watercolors on a Grand Scale, Hirschl & Alder Galleries, New York | |
| 2004 | In Pursuit of Enlightenment - New Watercolors, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York | |
| 2002 | Power & Glory - Sicilian Baroque, John Martin of London | |
| 2001 | Reflections of New York, Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York | |
| 2000 | On Tour with the Prince, Watercolours & Drawings Fair, London/The British Council Touring Exhibition: Slovenia, Bulgaria, Romania | |
| Out of the Ashes - Watercolours of Windsor Castle, Windsor Castle | ||
| 1999 | South-Western Approaches - The Cornish Sublime, New Academy Gallery, London | |
| 1998 | Grange Park & Arcadia, Grange Park Opera, Hampshire | |
| 1997 | In an Antique Land - Egypt, Spink-Leger Pictures, St. James's, London | |
| 1995 | Hong Kong & China, Spink & Son at the China Club, Hong Kong | |
| 1994 | Windsor Castle after the Fire and Russia & Imperial Europe, Spink & Son, St. James's, London | |
| 1992 | Italy and Czechoslovakia, Cadogan Gallery, London | |
| 1991 | The Silent Houses of Britain, Spink & Son, St. James's, London | |
| Country Houses, Atlantic Hotel, Jersey | ||
| 1990 | Silent Houses - Working Drawings, Addison Ross Gallery, Chelsea, London | |
| 1989 | A Selection of Watercolours, Arthur Andersen & Co., London | |
| Interiors, Fine Art Trade Guild Gallery, London | ||
| 1987 | Silent Houses, The Ritz Hotel, Piccadilly, London | |
| Lakes and Lake Designs, Jonathan Poole Gallery, London | ||
| 1986 | Country Houses, Addison Ross Gallery, London | |
| 1985 | Paintings from Petra, Brussels Europa Hotel | |
| Watercolours of South Africa, Addison Ross Gallery, London | ||
| 1984 | Jersey & the Channel Islands, Le Gallais Gallery, Jersey | |
| A Tour of South Africa, Crake Gallery, Johannesburg |
Group Exhibitions Include:
| 2002 | A Select Seven, W.H. Patterson, London | |
| 2000 | The Crown Estate, New Academy Gallery, London | |
| 1994 | Venice in Peril (in aid of the Venice in Peril Fund), W.H. Patterson, London | |
| 1992 | Enchanted Gardens (in aid of SAVE Britain's Heritage), Richmond Gallery, London | |
| Follies (in aid of the Folly Fellowship), New Academy Gallery, London |
Commissions Include:
The Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Gardens Project
HM The Queen, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother
The House of Lords, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother
The Royal Collection, Windsor Restored
Coutts Bank, 100th Birthday Gift to HM The Queen Mother
The Royal Collection, Windsor Castle after the fire of 1992
The Prince of Wales's Institute of Architecture
The Duchy of Cornwall
The Parliamentary Art Collection, Westminster
English Heritage
HSBC Middle East
Royal Bank of Scotland
The British School at Rome
British Broadcasting Corporation
GNI Ltd
Chartered Association of Certified Accountants
The London Capital Club
Speyhawk plc
British & Commonwealth
Guinness Peat
Glaxochem
Wiggins Teape
Burmah Castrol
Cawdor Castle Tourism
Numerous Private Commissions throughout Europe, the Americas and the Far East