Craig Alan | Cocotte Calligraphy not illustration

not illustration

The work is about expansion

The mixed media technique allows Maxim to build surfaces of genuine material complexity — acrylic

the painting that knows what the first one was trying to do and does it more fully

where the boundary between elements is perpetually negotiated

Craig Alan | Cocotte Calligraphy not illustrationCraig Alan Cocotte Original Populus series Cocotte the French term for a kept woman, a courtesan, a figure of luxury and transgression gives Craig Alan's Populus method a subject that suits it perfectly. Each of Alan's works is built from hundreds of individually painted miniature figures that resolve, at the correct distance, into a single coherent image. The effect is cinematic: a work that changes as you approach it, offering one reading from