Craig Alan | Cocotte Calligraphy

Craig Alan | Cocotte CalligraphyCraig Alan Cocotte Original Populus series Cocotte the French term for a kept woman, a courtesan, a figure of luxury and transgression gives Craig Alan's Populus method a subject that suits it perfectly. Each of Alan's works is built from hundreds of individually painted miniature figures that resolve, at the correct distance, into a single coherent image. The effect is cinematic: a work that changes as you approach it, offering one reading from

The work is about expansion

The mixed media technique allows Maxim to build surfaces of genuine material complexity — acrylic

His method is his alone — no other artist works at this level of density and compositional complexity — and works from the series have attracted serious collector attention across Europe and North America

Before Banksy stencilled walls

the painting that knows what the first one was trying to do and does it more fully

not illustration

where the boundary between elements is perpetually negotiated

The Cosmic Carpark works are not celebrity art projects — they are the sustained record of a private practice

Each of his Populus works is constructed from hundreds of meticulously hand-painted miniature figures — tiny people who

with consistent secondary market performance and a collector base that includes some of the most prominent names in entertainment

His studio is prolific

or simply to the tradition of landscape painting as emotional response rather than topographical record