Full time artist based in South Wales, recently moved back to Wales after nearly 10 years working as an artist in London)
- Solo exhibitions in prestigious galleries across uk including many in London
- Street art/ murals can be seen in cities across uk and Europe including London, Rome, Naples, Bristol and Cardiff
- Currently Represented by several Galleries across the Uk including three galleries in London
- Work selected for numerous awards including Discerning eye, mall galleries, London and twice for Welsh artist of the year at St David’s hall, Cardiff
- Public and private collections and commissions world wide
- Regular features on Street art tours across uk with oil pastel / collage (paper butterflies!) work on Brick lane in London and Leonard lane in Bristol particular favourites
- Filmed by award winning filmmaker ‘ Alnoor Dewshi’ for his film ‘Butterflyman’ based on hugely popular paper butterfly installations on Bricklane
- in the last two years has been commissioned to paint over 30 bespoke designs on to camper vans

I suppose there are three main strands to my practice. Firstly my studio practice where I paint pictures and make sculptures with the purpose of showing them in galleries. Secondly my street art where I make works using spray paint and oil pastels mostly on the streets of east London and Bristol
And most recently the third strand has been murals. These include on outdoor public spaces including some council commissioned , private spaces -garden walls/ fences etc and finally vehicle art mostly hand/spray painted onto campervans.
Here I will expand on my studio practice as this seems most relevant to the paintings you’ll see on this site. I tend to work in series which I regularly return to.
These range from what I call ‘painterly pop’ where subjects range from celebrities to Starwars characters to Lego heads. Pop art subjects but treated with intensity and energy in attempt to bring them more to life! Then there are my ‘Paint over pieces’ where I make bacon or basquiatesque expressionist interventions directly on to prints of famous images for example the ‘art is dead’ series’ which make a comment on the mortality of both the subject and the original image.. Nothing is Forever!
The Show birds or budgies where the birds are painted in a format in an attempt to allude to human qualities. Trying to give them a sense of character, mood or emotions so we relate to them as we do people..
The garden birds (usually on a small or miniature scale) which attempt to capture the fleeting nature of our observation of them.
Landscape and places paintings which fuse impressionist and expressionist approaches where my main concern is trying to convey a sense of atmosphere.

Then there is my street art which has been and to this day is (in one form or another) almost permanently visible for the last ten years on and around Brick lane, London. I depart with a quote from one of the, if not the leading authority on east London street art scene:

‘Alex Arnell has an extraordinary ability to view the layers of colour present on walls around Shoreditch and use existing fragments as a jumping off point for his colourful, thought provoking, often political and hardly ever legal street art. Wildly energetic impressionist interventions often remind passers by of a latter-day Basquiat and their apparent naivety masks a deep knowledge of art theory.’
Dave Stuart
Founder and Lead tour guide of
Shoreditch street art tours
Londons best and highest rated (on trip advisor and Google reviews) street art tour

For further articles and films on my street art as well as images/ information on mural/ van commissions this can all be found elsewhere on the internet.