When planning the work for his debut solo exhibition at BEERS, Liam Alvy would take long walks in nature with his dog, in a wooded area near the lakes around his home in Yorkshire. The result is Feast of the Great Lakes, consisting of a series of new paintings in his quirky, recognizable style. The works have a sort of naive charisma to them – situated partway between an obvious painterly prowess …
When planning the work for his debut solo exhibition at BEERS, Liam Alvy would take long walks in nature with his dog, in a wooded area near the lakes around his home in Yorkshire. The result is Feast of the Great Lakes, consisting of a series of new paintings in his quirky, recognizable style. The works have a sort of naive charisma to them – situated partway between an obvious painterly prowess and the hyper-stylization that lands within the realm of illustration or even the strongly contoured, recognizable shapes traditionally used in tattoo art. Alvy, a tattooist since his early twenties, …
