Alan Graham Dick
Alan Graham Dick has been painting figurative images his entire life. This Scotsman from Aberdeen has spent the last 15 years dividing his studio time between Tokyo, London and New York. His artwork is part of many private and public collections and museums including the Daiwa-Anglo-Japanese Foundation in London and the BBC. He received a Masters Degree in Fine Art after studying with Norman Blarney at the Chelsea College of Art in 1978. Portrait work of his was included in an exhibition at the famous National Portrait Gallery in London in 1985.

" Cinema is a universal language, a familiar fiction. By painting images from old movies it may appear that I am on a nostalgia trip, but I do not see it that way. We live in an age with no space or time boundaries, so I feel free to roam. We are instantly everywhere, from the depths of the oceans to the outer planets! We are the first humans who can say that. Greta Garbo, Audrey Hepburn, Gong Li are as real as anything else I see. Closer than the nearest star! In my paintings, I search for the boundaries of fiction: the points where fiction and reality touch. This is where the sparks of life and creation exist. Painting is analogous to existence; an expression of what it is to live."