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A L E X A N D E R C R E S W E L L, KFO
ALEXANDER CRESWELL (born 1957 ) is an internationally acclaimed artist, best known for the large set of watercolours he painted of Windsor Castle for the Royal Collection depicting the Fire and restoration in 1993 & 1997, published as a book “Out of the Ashes”.
Before that, his book "The Silent Houses of Britian" had caught the public imagination and critical attention, and was followed by a series of major exhibitions at Spink & Son, London and Hong Kong, establishing his career within the long tradition of British watercolourists.
His distinctive style in watercolour combines subtle colouring and skilful draughtsmanship with a strong reverence for natural light, and he has consistently fought to bring watercolour to the forefront of academic painting.
Recognition of his work has brought important commissions, not only from Queen Elizabeth II following the Windsor Castle fire, but also to record the Lying in State of the Queen Mother, the creation of the Alnwick Garden for the Duchess of Northumberland, work for the Parliamentary Art Collection, the Frick Museum and the Forbes Collection, New York.
He has travelled as official artist with the Prince of Wales and taught at the Prince of Wales’s Institute of Architecture. He has painted extensively in Sicily, Venice and Turin as well as in Britian, the USA, Europe, Russia and the Middle East. He has exhibited to high critical acclaim in New York and London while also preparing a publishing series on Italian architecture.
For 2005 he created unique large-scale installations for Grange Park Opera in Hampshire, and in 2006 he pioneered a series of spectacularly big watercolours which, at over 3 metres in length, are the largest ever painted. These were shown in New York in October 2006. Subsequently he lived extensively in Venice exploring a hidden side of the city.
In 2008 he held highly successful one-man shows at the Majlis Gallery, Dubai and the Portland Gallery, London.
He is a member of the Advisory Council for the Institute of Classical Architecture & Classical America (ICA&CA)
The Art Workers Guild
The International Network for Traditional Architecture, Building Arts & Urbanism (INTBAU)
Royal Cornwall Yacht Club
Club Vela al Terzo, Venice
Port Navas Yacht Club
Bentley Drivers Club
In 2006 Creswell was invested as a Knight of the Order of Francis I in the Sacred Constantinian Order of St. George.
In 2008 he was awarded the Arthur Ross Award for Excellence in the Classical Tradition
CURRICULUM VITAE
Born 1957
Educated Winchester College, England
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Byam Shaw School of Drawing & Painting, London
West Surrey College of Art & Design, Farnham
Public Exhibitions:
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:
2009 'Chasing the Breeze'
Portland Gallery, London
2008 'Venice Only'
Portland Gallery, London
2008 'Looking Through'
Majlis Gallery, Dubai
2006 'The Grand Scale - New Watercolors'
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
2004 'In Pursuit of Enlightenment - New Watercolors'
Hirschl & Adler Galleries, New York
2002 ‘Power & Glory - Sicilian Baroque’
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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
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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
1992 ‘Follies’ (in aid of the Folly Fellowship)
New Academy Gallery, London
Collections (partial list):
The Royal Collection, HM Queen Elizabeth, London & Windsor (27 works)
The Forbes Collection, New York (9 works)
HRH The Prince of Wales (7 works)
The Frick Collection, New York
The Library of Congress, Washington D.C.
Commissions (partial list):
Duchess of Northumberland, Alnwick Gardens Project (2002/3)
HM The Queen, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother (2002)
House of Lords, Lying in State of HM The Queen Mother (2002)
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The Royal Collection, Windsor Restored, 1998
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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
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
... and numerous private commissions throughout Europe, the Americas and the Far East
Publications & Broadcasts:
2000 ‘Out of the Ashes - Watercolours of Windsor Castle’ The Royal Collection
1991 ‘The Silent Houses of Britain’ Macdonald
1993 ‘Silent Houses’ 40-minute documentary for Central Television
Posts and Awards:
2006 K.F.O. Invested as Knight First Class of the Order of Francis I by the Sacred Military Constantinian Order of St. George
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 & Associations:
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
Royal Cornwall Yacht Club, UK
Bentley Drivers Club
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