Naomi Alexander ROI | Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Ein Hod Interior
Ein Hod Israel

36" x 20"
Last Passover

10" x 20" Triptych
My Mother in Law 1930s
The Scottish Hospice Tiberias Israel
Big Brother 1984
The Rosengartens in Rega Before Emigrating
Grandma & Cat
Woman of Telz
Auntie Dorothy - One Hour Sketch

About Naomi Alexander ROI

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Biography

Artist's Statement

Naomi Alexander prefers to have a project in mind when she starts a painting. For the last eight years she has been working on Jewish subjects in Lithuania. Naomi often travels to Israel where her source of inspiration are the interiors of Arab houses. Also her immediate family and domestic scenes are important to her.

Method of Working

Naomi's main medium is oil paint, although she does also use watercolour and printmaking, using canvas or watercolour paper as a vehicle. She uses a projector to throw her images on the canvas before she creates, experimenting with composition. Naomi's material is very personal to her and she often has to travel abroad to obtain it. She tends to work on just one project at a time and she works from her sketches. Occasionally, she paints straight onto canvas if she is doing a portrait. Depending on the commission it can take me anything from 60 hours to 900, or in the case of a residency, two years.

Biographical Details

1954-1959 Studied at Hornsey College of Art

1961-1963 Studied at Central School of Art

1974-1980 Trained as a Picture Restorer

1985 Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

1990-2000 Acted as Publicity Officer for the Royal Institute of Oil Painters

2000- Elected a Member of the Royal Institute of Oil Painters Council

1996-2006 Trustee for Paintings in Hospitals

Society Memberships

Royal Institute of Oil Painters

Scholarships, Awards, Prizes

1984 ‘Cornellison Prize’, Mall Galleries, London

1988 'Stanley Grimm Prize', Mall Galleries, London

1995 ‘Visions Prize’, Ben Uri Gallery, London

2000 'Burlington Crystal ROI Award', Mall Galleries, London

2007 'A&K Willson Gallery Award', New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London

Exhibitions

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2016

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2015

Royal Institute of Oil Painters Annual Exhibition 2014

Other exhibitions

1978 Kacyeyski Gallery, London

1976 Seen Gallery, London

1981 Ben Uri Art Society and Gallery, London

1990 Sheila Harrison Contemporary Art, London

1996 Paintings in Hospital

1997 Sheridan Russell Gallery, London

2000 Baker Tilly, London

2000 Cusford Hall, Doncaster

2000 Amber Gallery, Tideswell, Derbyshire

2000 Buxton City Museum and Art Gallery

2000 Lambs Chambers, The Temple, London

2006 London Jewish Cultural Centre

2006 Lithuanian Embassey, London

2008 Vilna Gaon State Museum, Vilneus, Lithuania

2009 Richard Attenborough Centre, University of Leicester

2012 Jewish Museum of Florida, Miami, USA

2013 & 2015 Shipley Art Gallery, Gateshead

Also exhibited with

The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

New English Art Club

Royal Society of Portrait Painters

Publications

1984 Cover image for The Breadgivers, Anzia Yezirska, Women's Press Ltd.

1994 Make your own painting look 3 Dimensional, Brian Dance, Quarto Publications

1991 Oil Painting Technique, Jeremy Galton, Quarto Publications

1993 Complete Painting Course, Ian Simpson, Harper Collins

2001 Artists Sketchbook, Lucy Watson, Quarto Publications

2004 The Encyclopedia of Drawing Techniques, Hazel Harrison, Quarto Publications

2005 Oil Painters' Bible, Marylin Scot, Quarto Publications

2006 Artist's Kew, Royal Botanic Gardens, Kew

2006 Once Upon a Time in Lithuania, David Paul Books

2010 Images of St Paul's, St. Paul's Cathedral Foundation

2015 Domesticity, Naomi Alexander, Shipley Art Gallery and Ivy House