Alasdair Groves

Alasdair Groves

  • Artist’s Statement

    Born in 1969 Alasdair has been painting and drawing all his life. After studying Visual Arts in the 1990’s and majoring in painting he produced mostly abstract works for some time until returning to figuration in the early 2000’s as a response to coming back home to Rural Queensland.
    Alasdair works at times in all painting and drawing mediums though mostly ink and wash on paper, and oil on canvas using both traditional and modern techniques.
    Alasdair’s `work is a mix of dark humour,social commentary, mythology, symbolism, dreams, science, history as well as Science fiction, fantasy and cartooning influences. As well as documenting landscapes and the life and rural culture surrounding him.
    Alasdair has been called a “Larrikin Artist” but prefers the term “Hermit painter”.

  • Influences

    Goya, Joe Furlonger, Gustave Moreau, Arthur Boyd, Ian Fairwether, Akseli Gallen-Kallela,Peter Booth, H.R.Geiger, El Greco, Max Ernst

  • Website

    https://www.alasdairgroves.com/about/

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Alasdair Groves

Vainamoinen, Aino & Joukahainen
100 x 100 x 3.5 cm Oil on Canvas $3,300.00

Alasdair Groves

The giant Womble of the Apocalypse
61 x 51 x 3.5 cm Oil on Canvas Sold

Alasdair Groves

pssst wanna buy some Art?
51 x 40.5 x 3.5 cm Oil on Canvas $550.00