Alex March

Morning Rhodri! Curd is a word ripe with unfortunate possibilities.

These analogue collages made in 2021 are now available to purchase via the website shop. Goddesses, blooms, monstrous bodies and models all sliced and stuck back together with my gluey fingers in the studio.

Thanks Brian!

An oil painting in muted tones of a cast of a partial figure in the classical style, painted on grubby lilac cloth textured background

Text in this pic: Another oil study after Euan Uglow. This study is after “Still Life with cast” from 1960. I have removed the studio setting in this study, and used a gridding out method to place the cast on my vintage book cover support. I really enjoy the grubby faded violet of the support where it shows through the painting. “After Euan, Cast”, Alex March, 2025, oil on vintage book cover, 28.5 x 19.5cm

Another oil study after Euan Uglow. This study is after “Still Life with cast” from 1960.

“After Euan, Cast”, Alex March, 2025, oil on vintage book cover, 28.5 x 19.5cm

An oil painting of a female figure curled on a chequered tiled floor painted almost in monochrome, mostly yellow, black and white

Text: This week in the studio, an oil study after Euan Uglow. In “Double square, double square” 1980-83 Uglow used a composition twice as wide as it is tall, the double square of the title. I was drawn to painting a version of this nude partly because I love Uglow, the stillness, the flat crisp exactitude of his painting. Mainly though I couldn’t help thinking she looks a bit cold. And it can’t be at all comfortable lying there like that. The perspective was tricky, the floor tiles disappear away at a slight angle, almost pivoting around the centrally fixed figure. In Uglow’s original there are the characteristic measuring lines. I’ve omitted these as I don’t work like that. In my study I wipe back the darkest areas of the painting to reveal the original support, a vintage black book cover. Most of my recent oil studies have been on recycled supports like this. I prepare them with a clear sealant before painting to give the paint the right adhesion. “Floored, after Euan.” Alex March 2025 oil on vintage book cover, 36.5 x 26cm

This week in the studio, an oil study after Euan Uglow. In “Double square, double square”
In recent paintings I wipe back the areas of the painting to reveal the original support, a vintage black book cover.

“Floored, after Euan.” Alex March 2025 oil on vintage book cover, 36.5 x 26cm

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That’s a beaut

The fact that these guys take themselves seriously, and ARE taken seriously by others is just depressing.

I suspect many seeing the above might come independently to the same response, it’s instinctive.

Bollocks

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Abstract painting with a band blue sandwiched between two bands of golden yellow, the top one thick and the bottom one much thinner. The borders between the colors are rough.

Mark Rothko, Untitled (Yellow and Blue), 1954, private collection

Came here to say this

Ms Casey from Severance

Your outie understands when someone is making a joke on the internet and doesn't embarrass themselves in people's replies

A display of art books for sale in a book shop including Fragmentary Forms, a new history of collage featuring a collage on the cover art by little old me

Discovered over on instagram that the wonderful Fragmentary Forms is only on display in the MOMA shop! My little collage made it to Moma! (Ish!) 😁

White horse on green and blue messiness, nice, oil pastel, pink mouth

Small houses in a terrace, oil pastel, townscape, burgundy and beige, messy oil pastel

House and horse, delicate colours, more naive, strange floating, oil pastel

Rabbit and spider, dark, big old mess, oil pastel

Hello, I’m Chloe the person and I’ve put these four recent oil pastel drawings on my website so now they’re for sale and someone could buy them. #art

www.chloecumming.com

A really satisfying read.

A photo of a an ancient figurine, with exaggerated hips and bum, and boobs. Her arms are on her hips as if she's about to give you a good telling off

New Aardman character drops: she's not mad, she's just very disappointed 👍🏛️🍑 #MuseumBums

This is the 7,500-year-old "Red-haired Goddess", in the National Museum, Belgrade. It was found near Odžaci, Serbia 😁

At the John Soane Museum in London on Saturday, Soane was a collector (pillager) and took items from Pompeii, when the docent mentioned this an Italian visitor said there’s a superstition about items from Pompeii bringing misfortune unless they were returned. (Soane did suffer tragedy in his life)

I really need to finish revamping my website but it feels like such a chore.

I know it’s part of the job but it’s Bo-ring. 🥱

Posted because Bluesky keeps censoring my other stuff.

A collage featuring a black and white woman reflected in a mirror, her face is collaged in a kaleidoscope of technicolour flowers.

A collage of Barbara Stanwyck in back and white. Her blouse is a collaged kaleidoscope of technicolour flowers.

A collage of mirrored black and white female heads from old Hollywood, on a background of striped collage orange flowers.

A vibrant technicolour portrait of a woman on an orange background, her face is a kaleidoscope of orange a one pink flowers.

Some older collages from back in the day. Powerblouse (Barbara Stanwyck) is available as a limited edition print. www.alexmarch.com/shop/power-b...

He is prepared to do the thing, but the price will be rather high.

Pastel drawing on circular paper

Pastel drawing on circular paper

Painting in circular format by Ingres.

I made some pastel drawings recently inspired by Jean Auguste Dominique Ingres The Turkish Bath. “The Boys Club I and II.” 40cm dia. Delicious Sennelier soft pastel on industrial filter paper. More incoming.

Classical bust of a goddess reflected in a circular convex mirror on a red background.

The darkened reflections of marble and plaster friezes captured in a foxed and mottled convex mirror

Classical bust of a female figure lit from above, highlighting cobwebs draping her neck

Bronze bust of Venus covering herself lit dramatically (photographed in the crypt of the museum)

I queued, I saw, I conquered. Admired and occluded reflections, stolen glances, Venus Pudendica and cobwebbed at the nape. All at the Sir John Soane Museum at Lincoln’s Inn Field.

A red chalk drawing of three female figures drawn by Raphael as preparation for the Three Graces

A drawing of a muscular leg showing several positions

A close up of a drawing of a female figure showing initial sketches made by impressing a point into the paper, and subsequent chalk corrections and shading over the top

A drawing in black and white by Da Vinci of a kneeling draped figure, focussing on the drapery

Some favourites from the Renaissance drawing exhibition at The King’s Gallery. Raphael’s Graces, drawing palimpsests and Da Vinci. I had a little tear over his drawing of the anatomy of bird wings. What can I say, I’m a fool for love.

Off in search of renaissance drawing and neo-classical knick knacks in London today. 🚶🏻‍♀️

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