• Monday, 16 January, 2012

    Alexander Creswell photographed working in Watts's Great Studio.
    Photograph by Nick Wood: http://www.nickwoodphoto.com/
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  • Wednesday, 16 November, 2011

    Wednesday 16th November (RESCHEDULED from 28th July): Alexander in conversation with Victor Stock, Dean of Guildford Cathedral

    This colloquium will be held in the Watts Gallery where Alexander will discuss his work with The Very Reverend Victor Stock, exploring the concept of ‘Spirit of Place’ in Faith, Art and Architecture. Both Alexander and Victor Stock are great raconteurs; their conversation will be broad, incisive and almost certainly very amusing - all that with...

  • Wednesday, 12 October, 2011 - Sunday, 23 October, 2011

     

    EXCLUSIVE SHOW OF NEW WORK & RECENT COMMISSIONS

    12th October - 23rd October 2011, 11am - 5pm or by appointment

    Internationally celebrated watercolour painter Alexander Creswell is delighted to open the doors of Watts's Great Studio to show new works and recent important commissions. Alexander has enjoyed breathing life...

  • Thursday, 8 September, 2011

    Thursday 8th September: Alexander in conversation with Mark Bills, Curator of Watts Gallery 

    This colloquium will be held in Watts Gallery surrounded by Watts’s masterpieces where Alexander & Mark will be exploring the concept of Watts as an artist of today. It will be a great opportunity to look at the collection in some detail and it will be fascinating to have Alexander's and Mark's combined knowledge to hand...

  • Thursday, 30 June, 2011

    30th June 2011: Creswell Colloquium with Oliver Everett, Royal Librarian Emeritus

    Watts’s Great Studio, Limnerslease, Down Lane, Compton, Surrey GU3 1DJ
    Drinks at 7.30pm followed by a talk 8 - 9pm

    Oliver Everett CVO is Librarian Emeritus of the Royal Library, Windsor Castle where he was Librarian from 1984 to 2002. Oliver knows Windsor and the Royal Collection extremely well, has written the official guidebook and audio tour as well as contributing to...

  • Friday, 6 May, 2011 - Thursday, 8 September, 2011

    'NOBILITY OF PLACE' - Forbes Galleries, New York. Creswell's first museum show at Forbes Galleries New York.

    6th May - 8th September 2011

    Click here to view full catalogue of works

    Following in the tradition of the eighteenth-century "Grand Tour," Alexander Creswell (b.1957) has visited monuments ranging from Greco-Roman antiquity to the Baroque in Europe and from notable Colonial, Classical Revival, and...