ABOUT DAVID ALEXANDER ART

My name is David. I am an abstract, Surreal. I am a wheelchair user with cerebral palsy from Birmingham. Through mixed media, including acrylic painting and collage, I create surreal, abstract paintings. My work expresses chaos and imperfection. This is celebrated by using bold colours with dark undertones, incorporating a range of complementary colours. There is a theme that anchors my work altogether, it is the realisation that it is good to be different in a world so strange.  

I was born to be different. As a child, people would always stop and stare at my wheelchair. My mother said it was because I was extraordinary. I  express this in my work. I hope to celebrate oddities, making people stop and stare, igniting their curiosity. I never thought I would be an artist; my hands shake. School had taught me that there was a way to produce fine art and that I didn’t have the skills due to my disability. I discovered abstract art, and it opened new doors for me.

I use my quadrupedia to compliment my style of painting.

I would love to be an influence and inspiration to budding disabled artists in the future.