ALEXANDRE PHILIPS

 Alexandre Philips was born in Caracas, Venezuela, to a French-American family, in 1992. He had an itinerant childhood moving from Caracas to Buenos Aires to Bogota and San Francisco, eventually settling down in London. After his Baccalauréat, he spent a year in Paris studying Psychology & Drawing before returning to London to study Political Science.

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 His initial contact with art was through his parents’ collection of pre-Columbian and modern South American works, yet it is his love of history that predominantly exposed him to the subject : at first through ancient maps and their illustrations, then with artefacts of bygone civilizations, and finally through historical paintings –depictions of the famous events he had studied.

 It was only at adolescence that he received his pictorial and artistic education. It was given to him by his maternal grandmother, an amateur porcelain painter, who was indefatigable in her desire to impart her love of the discipline to her grandson.

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 His first attempts at oil painting where in his early teens, when he tried to copy works by his granduncle, Italian artist Paolo Vallorz (1931-2017) : “It was a disaster; I decided that it might not be for me”, he recalls. However, a few years after returning from Paris, he decided to reconnect with his passion.