Alex Beckinsale

South Australian Visual Artist & Educator


Welcome

Alex Beckinsale is an early career artist whose work is inspired by strange narratives, folklore, and popular culture.

Her practice primarily focuses on utilising both digital and traditional drawing to represent the human figure. She works both from live models and photographs as references to create her drawings.

Alex spends her time between her home studio and teaching art workshops for teens and adults around South Australia.

Workshops

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Alex is extremely passionate about helping others learn more about the world of art and drawing.

She specialises in teaching people both traditional and digital drawing, with a focus on figurative art, character illustration and life drawing.

She runs a number of of workshops and courses throughout South Australia. She does this both independently and through local arts institutions such as Adelaide Central School of Art, Carclew, the Art Gallery of South Australia and more…

Traditional Drawing

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Alex trained as a traditional artist during her four year BVA (Hons) degree at Adelaide Central School of Art.

Art school reinforced her love of the discipline and techniques of observational drawing, especially that of charcoal and pastel figurative work.

Alex currently works primarily in these mediums, but also creates graphite and ink works.

Digital Drawing

Digital drawing first became part of Alex’s practice in 2016. Since then it’s flexibility and possibilities have made it an invaluable part of her studio work. She utilises the medium to create works for exhibitions, teaching demos, resources, illustrations and to plan compositions for her traditional drawings.

Life drawing has become an increasingly important aspect of Alex’s practice.

The practice of working from life has increased Alex’s knowledge of human anatomy and how to draw the figure with accuracy.

She regularly runs beginner - intermediate courses in both nude and clothed life drawing. If you’re interested in learning life drawing from Alex check out her upcoming workshops.

Life Drawing

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Purchase your own one of a kind artworks or commission Alex to create a piece especially for you