ALEXANDRA MALO

Intuitive, Sensory and Explosive.
YES, THAT IS ALEXANDRA MALO

The urge. The tingle. The tiny voice in your head. These are all ways your intuition is talking to you. Intuitive painting is the process of allowing each layer of paint to inform what comes next. It’s about  self-love embracing the mystery, exercising non-attachment, exploring and expressing the Voice, and playing with paint. The process requires letting go of fear or expectations to allow the painting to evolve based on heart callings, visions, and play. Including happy accidents.

Alexandra decided to make painting her voice her main activity. I discovered Alexandra´s work on Instagram. Her abstract play with textures, landscapes, colors and lines is very intriguing. It arouses the curiosity or interest in the unusual. The fascinating or compelling qualities appeal and captivate.

I find many of her paintings explosive. Look at "Blast" for example; a very dynamic painting. It is intuitive, sensory and explosive, and t’s beautiful. Or look at "Atlantis", an ice-cold dynamic acrylic painting with very interesting textures. “Alentejo”, an abstract acrylic landscape painting on canvas,  is pure joy for your eyes. Sublime is a word that comes to mind. She identifies with Abstract Expressionists or Action Painters.

Alexandra was born in Angola (Africa) in 1966. She is the youngest and only girl of 3 siblings. She comes from a very well known family linked to science. She got used to being the emotional one.  Her mother and grandmother were self-taught painters and from a very young age she was encouraged to play with colour and to express herself through mark making.

Come and see Alexandra’s first exhibition with 50 art works - A SENSE OF [E]MOTION – it is taking place at the Artview Gallery in Lisbon in October 2021.

I am Thomas Roth, an artist living in Southwest Florida. It has been a pleasure to write this for Alexandra and I wish her a very successful exhibition.