Axel Art - Contemporary Artist

Axel is a visual artist based in Dubai. He was born in French Caribbean Guadeloupe and has previously lived and worked in Paris and New York. Axel is a painter working with diverse elements of collage, calligraphic gesture, and dripped and sprayed paint. His compositions incorporate open colour block and more intricate, dense, pattern-based structures. His work is created through attention to meditative thinking, spontaneity and unconscious action; at times incorporating strong emotional impetus. He is inspired by his location of Dubai, a city with an extensive multi-cultural identity. Abstract Expressionism, including the dripped paint works of Jackson Pollock, and late-modernist, anti-figurative works such as those by Pierre Soulages.