Naomi Alexander

Naomi Alexander ROI is a painter whose favoured subjects include domestic interiors and landscapes. She travels widely and her works are inspired by subjects she has seen, based on Sketches and Watercolours produced “en plein air”. Her major projects include a series of paintings of the attics of Chatsworth and works made in Lithuania. She is regularly commissioned to paint Portraits.

1954 - 1959 Hornsey College of Art NDD, London
1960 - 1961 Textile Designer for Baroness Batsheva de Rothschild, Israel
1961 - 1963 Post-Graduate at the Central School of Art, London
1972 - 1976 Studied Old Master conservation under President of the British Picture Restorers Association
1976 Accepted as associate member of the British Association of Paintings Conservators and Restorers
1977 Established 'Zalkin Old Master Restorers' whilst working for the Ministry of the Environment
in the Victoria and Albert Museum
1983 Accepted as a member of the Royal Society of Oil Painters
1988 - 2000 Publicity officer for the Royal Society of Oil Painters
1998 - 2008 Trustee for Paintings in Hospitals (PiH)
2000 - 2010 Council member of the Royal Society of Oil Painters 
 

Selected Solo Exhibitions

1976 Kacyeyski Gallery, London, W1
1976 Seen Gallery, London, W1
1981 Ben Uri Museum, London, W1
1990 Sheila Harrison Contemporary Art, Jermyn Street, London, W1
1996 Paintings in Hospitals (PiH)
1997 Sheridan Russell Gallery, London, W1
1999 Baker Tilly, London, W1
2000 Cusford Hall, Doncaster
2000 Amber Gallery, Tideswell, Derbyshire
2000 Buxton City Museum and Art Gallery
2000 Lambs Chambers, The Temple, London, EC4
2006 London Jewish Cultural Centre, NW11
2006 Lithuanian Embassy, London, W1
2008 Vilna Gaon, State Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania
2009 University of Leicester David Attenborough Centre
2012 The Jewish Museum of Florida, USA
2013 The Shipley Art Gallery and Museum
 

Awards and Residencies

1984 Cornellisen Prize, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
1988 Stanley Grimm Prize, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
1990 - 1991 Home of Earl of Stockton, Birch Grove, Uckfield, Sussex
1995 Visions Prize, Ben Uri Gallery, London, W1
1998 - 2000 Home of Earl of Devonshire, Chatsworth, Derbyshire
2000 Burlington Crystal ROI award, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
2000 - 2004 Europos Parkas Museum and Sculpture Park, Lithuania
2001 Jewish Artist of the year Group, Candid Art Gallery, EC1
2007 A&K Willson Gallery Award, New English Art Club, Mall Galleries, London, SW1
2010 Invited artist, St. Paul’s Cathedral, EC4

 Website

www.naomialexander.com/