Artwork for Alexa Summers
'Seascape'. Cyanotype
'Rebirth'. Cyanotype
'Reverie'. Cyanotype
'Coffee with a note of Toffee Bees'
'Reverie' detail. Cyanotype
Details
I make art mostly as a response to the beauty I see in nature and the majority of my subject matter is botanical. Currently I work mostly in Cyanotype 'sun printing', coffee painting, and drawing.
Beauty is something that is necessary to our soul's health and for me nature is the breath of fresh air that lifts me out of the every-day concerns and helps me to see the bigger picture in life. It helps me to re- find my equilibrium. My art is my reply to this blessing and if that reply can have a similar effect for someone else, then the blessing is multiplied!
I work under the name Alexa Summers Art.
I work mostly from home and glean the plants I use from the local surroundings, but also occasionally at the seaside when I get the chance I like to do Cyanotype sun prints plein air using waves, sand, seaweed and foam.
I can be found regularly at The Local to Ludlow Produce Market every 2nd and 4th Thursday of the Month and around Herefordshire, Worcestershire and Shropshire at different markets. I also exhibit at local galleries, coffee shops etc.
I run Cyanotype workshops in Richards Castle in collaboration with Food Friends Flowers, and occasionally in different venues on request.
I trained in Art at school, college and also a year of Fine Art at University before moving on to teaching and community development work around the world, which necessarily involved quite a lot of creativity! More recently I have returned to practising art full time.
I have exhibited at The Artists' Gallery, Ludlow; Footprint Gallery, Ironbridge; Eden Coffee Shop, St.Peter's, Worcester; The Nest at Little Verzons Farm, Ledbury.
I currently have work for sale at Ludlow Assembly Rooms Visitors Information Centre, and Eden Coffee Shop, St. Peter's, Worcester. I also sell my work regularly at the Local to Ludlow Produce Market, and through my website.
