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Keith
Alexander is an artist known to many in Southern Africa,
in America and in Europe. A quiet, diffident and unassuming
man, he created a substantial number of exquisite paintings,
with rare exceptions African-themed.
Very sadly he died in 1998 at the relatively young age of
52. This untimely death robbed the world of great art. Keith
Alexander was a prolific painter, and all his work was interesting,
special and different. He used a rare technique of combining
clear, almost photographic, realism with surreal images
or effects. Sometimes he played tricks with perspective,
more often he introduced features which are bizarrely out
of place in his works and yet could belong.
His
major theme, inspired by what he saw in the Namib, was the
impermanence of man's work in the face of a relentless nature,
and this theme is evident in many of his paintings. Those
lucky enough to have visited the Namib desert will appreciate
his astonishing skill in capturing light, heat and atmosphere.
Keith
Alexander's work lives on through the prints listed here.
DesertArt is privileged to have been granted the licence
to reprint these works, by Keith Alexander's heirs.
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