About J Alexandra Connor
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Awards
2004
Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts
2004
Debrett's Prominent People
This was awarded to me for my work as an artist, art historian, and writer.
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Event: National Gallery - Kazakhstan
Dates: 18 Jul 2024 - 1 May 2024
I was visited to Kazakhstan for two weeks and whilst there painted three portraits of people in national dress. They were well received and exhibited in the National Gallery.
Event: THE GOYA ENIGMA
Dates: 16 Jul 2014 - 6 Jan 2016
This was my thriller in which I recreated Goya's Black Paintings. The book was published by Quercus Publishers in 2014 and published in USA, France, Spain and Russia.
I also did - and sold - a composite painting of The Black Paintings, which married them into one complete picture.
Event: THE ISLE OF THE DEAD
Dates: 10 Jul 2014 - 28 Aug 2015
This is another of my historical art thrillers which I illustrated with works from Titian and a portrait of Angelica Vespucci.
The book was published by Quercus, London, and published in ten other countries and eleven other languages.
Event: One Man Show
Dates: 1 Jun 2005 - 31 Aug 2005
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Event: Exhibition of works from the Season at the RSC
Dates: 8 Sep 2004 - 11 Dec 2004
These were a selection of portraits and paintings I was asked to do by the Royal Shakespeare Company, Stratford on Avon. I painted Anthony Sher, Frank Middlemass, Kenneth Branagh and Brian Blessed, amongst others.
The paintings were exhibited in the Royal Shakepeare Theatre Gallery, and also in London in various other galleries.
Event: Commedia dell'arte
Dates: 10 Aug 1999 - 10 Sep 1999
Solo exhibition set around the Commedia dell'arte, its stories and its characters, like Puccinello.
Biography
For a number of years I studied the techniques of the Old Masters, visiting specialists to learn skills used since the 15th Century. Many of my portraits have an under painting of egg tempera to give an added luminosity before I apply oil colour and glazes.
The late Pietro Annigoni believed in my work. A quote from one of his letters has always inspired me: "It is incredible what you have achieved. Go ahead, and work hard!"
I've exhibited in Aspreys, Bond Street; the Stephen Bartley Gallery, Chelsea; had a one woman show at the Marina Henderson Gallery, Chelsea; and a one woman show at the Richmond Gallery, Cork Street, London.
