Naomi Alexander ROI Hon. SGFA

Biography 

Naomi Alexander ROI is a painter whose favoured subjects include domestic interiors and

landscapes. She travels widely and her works are inspired by subjects she has seen, based

on Sketches and Watercolours produced “en plein air”. Her major projects include a series of

paintings of the attics of Chatsworth and works made in Lithuania. Authored books include

‘Once Upon A Time In Lithuania’ (2006) and ‘Domesticity’ (2015) and a new graphic novel is

in preparation, featuring a series of iPad drawings on the subject of Naomi’s experience of

domestic abuse. She is regularly commissioned to paint Portraits.

Education:

1954–1959 Hornsey College of Art, London

1961–1963 Central School of Art, London

1972–1976 British Picture Restorers Association, London

Selected Solo exhibitions:

1976 Kacyeyski Gallery, London

1976 Seen Gallery, London

1981 Ben Uri Museum, London

1990 Sheila Harrison Contemporary Art, London

1996 Paintings in Hospitals, London

1997 Sheridan Russell Gallery, London

1999 Baker Tilly, London

2000 Cusford Hall, Doncaster

2000 Amber Gallery, Tideswell, Derbyshire

2000 Buxton City Museum and Art Gallery

2000 Lambs Chambers, The Temple, London

2006 London Jewish Cultural Centre, London

2006 Lithuanian Embassy, London

2008 Vilna Gaon State Museum, Vilnius, Lithuania

2009 University of Leicester, David Attenborough Centre

2012 ‘Once Upon a Time in Lithuania’, Jewish Museum of Florida, USA

2012 ‘Once Upon a Time in Lithuania’, Shipley Art Gallery and Museum, Gateshead

2015 ‘Domesticity’, Shipley Art Gallery and Museum

Selected Group Exhibitions:

1985 – date Regular exhibitor at the Royal Academy of Arts Summer Exhibition, London

1985 – date Regular exhibitor at New English Art Club, Royal Society of Oil Painters,

and Royal Society of Portrait Painters, Mall Galleries, London