Alexandra Ffion Barrington

Born
1993
Nationality
British
Country
United Kingdom
City
St Leonards on sea

Born in United Kingdom, I have been fascinated with colour and creating art my entire life. A never-ending journey of discovering looking for new colours, techniques and learning, has taken me around the world in search of inspiration and materials.   

Primarily working in the form of sculptural mixed media painting, collage and photography, my work focuses on the relationship between the abstract colours and textures of our natural world.

Using both digital and analog processes, my work plays with different perspectives, time and reality, through composition and materiality. Shifting between otherworldly landscapes and representational forms, we become immersed into the vibrant dreamscapes layered with symbolism and organic visual patterns.

Bold, contrasting colour combinations and expressive gestures of line, are intuitively created and brought to the surface from a subconscious diary of colour and texture. Sensual memories of past experiences and encounters, are recollected through the intuitively layering and assembling materials on canvas, wood panel and paper.

Alexandra Ffion currently lives and practises in St Leonards on sea, East Sussex.

'Corolla' 2019. Collage from found imagesThe images were collected from books, magazines and pieces of paper found on the streets of Brighton.
Occupation
Abstract Artist
Drawing/collage artist
Painter
Interests
Music
Arts
nature
Languages
English
Biography

Born in London, Alexandra Ffion (b.1993) never felt connected to the robust, concrete landscape of her birthplace. Instead Ffion found her solace in the green wild weald of Sussex where she resides and works.

After finishing her studies in Fine Art at Central Saint Martins, London and University of Brighton, where she discovered surrealism for the first time and artists such as Gerhard Richter, Leonora Carrington and Cy Twombly, she ventured on a global discovery for new colour palettes and artistic meaning. Exploring the tropical pastel lined shores of Havana, the ancient evergreen forests of California, to the wild rich island of Sicily and beyond, she found new inspiration ready to return home.

Since then, Alexandra Ffion has exhibited in solo and group shows across the United Kingdom, Spain, Belgium and France. She now works and lives in St Leonards on sea,  England.

Education
University of Brighton
SAINT MARTINS SCHOOL OF ART
Exhibitions
2022
Alexandra Ffion
The Crown
Solo
2023
Holy Art Fair
The Holy Art
Group
2018
Save Posidonia
Formentera
Group
2017
The Painters Project
Belgium fine art fair
Group
Prizes and Awards
nargoyi group exhibition prize 2015
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