A Woodland Mural for a Dining Room
Michael Alford discusses the process of planning and making a bespoke dining room mural for a special family home in London.
Collaborations: Michael Alford on Painting the Nude
The attraction to painting nudes is that it’s so difficult to get it right. You need correct draughtsmanship, colour, tone. You have to understand anatomy, even though you’re not really painting it. You start with a real person. You want to capture the specificity of...
Oil and Water Autumn Show
Exhibition News: Metropolis: Celebrating the World’s Greatest Cities
A group show with new cityscapes by Michael Alford 21st February – 10 March THOMPSON’S GALLERIES 3 Seymour Place London, W1H 5AZT +44 (0) 207 935 3595...
Cityscapes, First Steps and Early Work: A 5-Minute Interview
Michael Alford speaks to Louisa Baumgärtel from the online art magazine Singulart and answers her questions about his early work, artistic inspirations and what compels him to paint cityscapes.
Michael Alford in Landscape Artist of the Year 2017
Michael Alford enjoys a private chat with Joan Bakewell during the filming of Landscape Artist of the Year 2017 on location in Knaresborough. On a blustery day last June 2017, Michael Alford joined a field of eight fellow artists in Knaresborough, all vying for the...
British Impressionism: Alford, Martin and Pikesely
The Impressionist movement in painting is associated most with Southern climes. Painters like Claude Monet, Paul Cézanne. Éduard Manet and Camille Pisarro gravitated toward Provence where they could paint outside, capturing the vibrant colours and stark contrasts of...
In the Footsteps of Paul Nash: British War Artists Today
Featured image: Transport, Helmand 2010 by Michael Alford The Tate Britain retrospective on Paul Nash (1889-1946), now on in London, reveals an artist of diverse interests and talents. Well known as a painter of expressive landscapes, Nash was involved in a wide range...
Autumn in Battersea at the Affordable Art Fair
Battersea is booming. Residents have only to look a the crop of cranes raised above the skyline to know that times are catching up with what was once a sleepy, leafy corner of the capital. Happily, some things remain the same. The Battersea Affordable Art Fair, in its...
How to Paint Corfu (and other Mediterranean Places)
Get your hat, assemble your travelling kit and head out into the sun to paint the beauties of the Mediterranean with these useful watercolour technique pointers from Michael Alford.