Aelx Rodgers - Pleroma

ALEX IS A SELF-TAUGHT TRADITIONAL ARTIST AND ILLUSTRATOR WORKING PRIMARILY IN PEN AND INK. HIS HIGHLY DETAILED DRAWINGS DRAW INSPIRATION FROM THE NATURAL WORLD, SACRED GEOMETRY, ORNAMENTAL DESIGN AND THE COMPLEX FORMS AND PATTERNS FOUND THROUGHOUT NATURE.

HIS WORK OFTEN BEGINS WITH OBSERVATION BUT DEVELOPS INTO IMAGINED COMPOSITIONS WHERE BOTANICAL FORMS, WILDLIFE, GEOMETRY AND SYMBOLISM INTERWEAVE. THROUGH INTRICATE LINEWORK, REPETITION AND SLOW, LABOUR-INTENSIVE MARK MAKING, HE CREATES DENSE ILLUSTRATIONS THAT REWARD CLOSE INSPECTION.

INFLUENCED BY NATURAL HISTORY ILLUSTRATION AND DECORATIVE TRADITIONS FROM AROUND THE WORLD, ALEX IS INTERESTED IN THE POINT WHERE NATURE, ART AND SYMBOLISM MEET. HIS WORK IS DRIVEN BY A SENSE OF WONDER AND CURIOSITY, INVITING THE VIEWER TO PAUSE, LOOK CLOSER AND CONTEMPLATE THE COMPLEXITY AND STRANGE BEAUTY OF THE NATURAL WORLD.