Alan Mercel-Sanca, born at Canterbury in 1967, is a UK-based professional artist, who specializes in graphite and watercolour pencil drawings. He is an established professional artist specializing in woodland subjects, portraiture, architectural, landscape and seascape drawing, and more recently abstract contemporary acrylic works.
From 1990-93 he lived and worked in Paris, during which time he gained valuable artistic experience and began to evolve his own style of creative work. Alan has traveled widely in connection with his artistic development: including British Columbia, Italy, and Japan (where he exhibited in Tokyo in 2004), and more recently, Taiwan. He has deep respect for aspects of traditional Chinese culture and Chinese spiritual and ethical philosophies.
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He created his first professional standard portrait at the age of 14 (see turbaned image). In 2003 he won a UK national award: the ‘Karisma Prize’ - sponsored by Sanfords, the Anglo-American artists materials manufacturer, through the UK Colour Pencil Society annual national competition, also(open to international entrants, including members of USA Colour Pencil Society. His winning piece - a watercolour pencil work entitled ‘The tree-shaded shrine’ - was the result of his travels in Japan. Further details of some of Alan's commissions, exhibitions, and other matters can be found on the Exhibitions page of this site.
In 2000 he was accepted to become an exhibiting artist at the former important UK commercial art gallery, The Nevill Gallery, and in subsequent years held an annual two week art show at the venue. He exhibits regularly at different artistic venues, and other commercial locations nationally (including London) and locally in the UK, and as a teacher of art-techniques works with local adult education authorities and Bournemouth University.
During the Summer 2008, the artist participated in the prestigious 'United in Art' exhibition of emerging and recognised specialist artists from the British Isles, at the important New York art galler, the Agora Gallery, Chelsea, New York: in the exhibition, he was the principle representative for England for traditional fine art drawing.
Alan also enjoys writing (non-fiction: history, practical ethics, and spiritual philosophy), and is continuing at this time to develop a book project which looks at the importance of guarding freedom of thought and holding inclusive perspectives concerning ethical and spiritual matters.
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