Alexandra Spyratos was born in Kenya where she lives most of her life surrounded by the exotic beauty and wilderness of Africa. Based between Australia and Kenya, Alexandra has made two tranquil corners of the world her base, painting in her studios for exhibitions worldwide.
Influenced by her colourful background, translating the heat and the exotic beauty of the African wildlife to canvas has become Spyratos' passion and spiritual goal. This prolific artist has become known for her bold and individual style. Her paintings rich and textured with oxidized patterned gold, copper leaf and pure silver, recreate the physicality of the wild that inspires her and reflect a glamorous sophistication.
Alexandra’s artistic presentation of the elephant, leopard, cheetah, ostrich, buffalo, giraffe and predominantly the regal zebra, swirls about and leaps to her palette in representational form. One views the regality of figure, the splendor and passion of the zebra, rearing off into a universal abstraction that searches through shape and form for manifestation of beauty, movement, heat and desire.
It is this deep inspiration from the heart of Africa that has emerged in Alexandra’s representation of the wildlife and has evolved into an original painting style that straddles all genre and is uniquely her own. In the words of well know art critic Miraim Cristaldi,
“In all these journeys across the most diverse countries and continents, this nomadic artist has seen and studied colour in all its territorial changes and expressive possibilities, and it has become a basic part of her artistic research. Her works have to be placed in that area of lyrical abstractions that runs from Kandinsky to Dorazio: the form of things, though having a strictly figurative aim, is essentially geometric and two dimensional. Her poetic world seems veiled by a cool mental image and, by way of a distilled personal inventiveness, orchestrates a chromatic symphony similar to the sensibility of postmodern aesthetics.”
With thirty-six solo shows behind her (New York, Miami, Hong Kong, South Africa, Uganda, Kenya, Sydney, Melbourne, Milan and London), Alexandra continues to expand her creative world, exploring and evolving in her individual contemporary style.
Presently based predominantly in Kenya, Alexandra is in the heart of her passion and a stone throw away from the wildlife that is the essence of her inspiration.
The Artists recent exhibitions include Lion In The Sun (Flavio Briatore’s private residence, Kenya), The Cat Street Gallery (Hong Kong), Laurie’s Fine Art Gallery (Design District Miami), Libby Edwards Gallery (Melbourne), Soho Gallery (Sydney), historical Watatu Gallery (Kenya), Art In The Yard (South Africa) and Imago Mundi, Museo Bilotti di Villa Borghese Rome, an international roaming show sponsored by Luciano Benetton.
Commissions include Paul Hogan, Linda Kowalski, Darcy Bussell, Mark Bouris, Domitilla Peugeot, Mick Doohan, William Scully, Kempinski Hotel, Four Seasons Hotel and Radisson Hotels.
