Alexander McKenzie
Artist Statement
Alexander McKenzie is a landscape painter with a rare affinity for the verdant terrains of Ireland, Scotland and the North of England. His luminous, monumental landscapes are as much evocations of mood as records of place. Although based in Australia, McKenzie travels each year around the fringes of the British Isles in search of new scenes to depict, new atmospheres to record. He makes numerous drawings, watercolours and oil sketches. His paintings are then composed and worked on over many weeks back in his studio. They are both distillations of experience and masterpieces of technique.
McKenzie is a meticulous craftsman, deploying the finest materials and many of the traditional and time-consuming techniques of the old masters to achieve an art that is both timeless and yet undeniably contemporary. In 2000, McKenzie won the prestigious Gilchrist Fisher Award for Landscape painting and in 2005 he was finalist for Australia's Wynne Prize. His work has been brought by important corporate collectors in both Britain and Australia.
