Alex DiMercurio, Artist
Alex is completely influenced by her reverence of, and connection to nature to explore ideas and narrate them visually. Often depicting the beauty of light in natural settings and its interplay with shadows.
Her current work is concerned with exploring fleeting moments. "I'm fascinated by the slight blur of movement. A split moment in time in which a scene subtly becomes greater than the sum of its parts. It becomes part of a greater essence, merged with light, atmosphere and ether. It becomes whole."
Alex likes to challenge composition to achieve strong contrasting works imbued with light, colour and potency, and her painterly technique often reflects the physicality of the subject. Frequently combining three-dimensional textural impasto paint, layered with fluid translucent acrylic where brushstrokes are barely caressing the canvas, while revealing a multitude of layers underneath.
