Editorial Feature
Collector View
MarkWilkins Miami, USA
I bought Alex’s work simply because I love it. I am drawn to it, as I can see the elemental sources that he captures. The serene light, ripples, flow, movement and time that he captures on his canvases. Living inMiami and being a sea and sun worshipper, I get great enjoyment fromseeing these paintings every day. An added bonus is they are a good investment, not that I will ever want to part with them! I finally had the pleasure of meeting Alex Echo a couple of weeks ago for the first time in Castle Fine Art Mayfair. Alex is a great guy. I was very lucky to hear him talk about the newexhibition ‘Water’ and the techniques he used to create such an impressive collection. He is very humble about his success, enthusiastic and passionate about the progression of his art, as well as being a real familyman. We have invited himand his daughter to visit us inMiami, where he nowhas a couple of loyal collectors. I own Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter quadriptych fromAlex’s Alchemy showand bought ‘Into theWave’ fromhis current exhibition ‘Water’. I amgoing to be commissioning Alex to paint me a large scale piece for a specific location later in the year oncemy home is remodelled. Alexmanages to harmonize everything I love in the art world. The confident use of colour, the abstract detail, the contemporary twist on Impressionist styles. His paintings are unique, I enjoy collecting art work, but I haven’t seen anyone elsemanage to achieve this level of continuity and uniformity of design, as well as the evolution achieved through his different collections.
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“There is a ballet between light, water, colour and time that I try to capture in each new painting”
“There is a ballet between light, water, colour and time that I try to capture in each new painting” says Echo, an American-born artist, now living deep in the Sussex countryside. A lover of what he refers to as the ‘lushness’ of England, he says “each painting has several thousand strokes and movements. Every painting is an attempt to see and feel that dance of colour and light reflected in a flower, a tree, a hillside or the sea.” Water is elemental to human life and yet an abundance of it floods and destroys, in scarcity it ravages and brings us to our knees and it is this dichotomy that provides the driving force
behind this powerful new collection, producing striking images of electric colour, light and shade which any interior decorator would seek out as a starting point for a room scheme. It is no wonder that Echo has become a highly collectable artist found in the private homes of Oprah Winfrey, Robert Downey Jr., Cindy Crawford, and former President Jimmy Carter amongst others. Here is your opportunity to enjoy the same experience. GALLERY The breathtaking new collection ‘Water’ fromAlex Echo is nowon view in galleries across the UK or vi ewonline at castlegalleries.com
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