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).
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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.
In 2000 he was accepted to become an in-house/exhibiting artist at the important UK commercial art gallery, The Nevill Gallery, and has subsequently 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. Alan also enjoys writing (non-fiction), and is currently working on his first book project.
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