Cape Town-based artist Alex Marmarellis is known for his intricate beach scenes.
“My practice keeps shifting between painting, photography. It is important to me to source my own reference material and I always carry a camera with me. I have learned that one can never know when the opportunity for a great photo will pop up. I take hundreds of images and then go through them one by one, looking for a handful that will work on their own or together…even just a portion of an image can be inspiring to me. I cut and paste people from one image into another depending on what I want the final outcome to be and what will work best on the size canvas I have chosen. My medium preference is acrylic paint on canvas.

I am very interested in trying new ways to create art..sculpture, carvings, pencil, spraypaint etc. there is no medium I would not experiment with to get the best possible end result.” – Alex Marmarellis