About Alex Loveless

Artist, neurodivergent maker, and organiser of community creativity in Perthshire.

I make paintings, drawings and mixed-media work about attention, emotion, memory, and the strange machinery of being human. My work often starts with images, fragments of text, music, film, old illustration, politics, and the things my brain refuses to let go of.

I am based in Auchterarder, Perthshire. I make art because the process matters: the looking, preparing, layering, repeating, ruining, rescuing, and occasionally surprising myself. For me, art is not decoration after the fact. It is how I process the world.

The Work

My work moves between figurative drawing, painting, mixed media, portraiture, landscape, collage, and more instinctive studio experiments. Some pieces are carefully planned. Others arrive through repetition, accident, irritation, curiosity, or the need to keep my hands busy while my head catches up.

I am drawn to faces, monsters, old film posters, album covers, comics, religious and mythic imagery, Art Deco, noir, science fiction, horror, and the visual noise of modern life. Those influences are not a mood board. They are part of the language I grew up with, and they keep resurfacing in the work.

Interested in a commission? I am selective about what I take on, but I am always open to the right conversation. Get in touch and tell me what you have in mind.

Neurodivergence, Attention and Making

I am autistic and have ADHD. That shapes how I notice things, how intensely I can focus, how easily I can be overwhelmed, and why making things has become such an important part of staying well.

Painting and drawing give me a way to slow down without switching off. The work often carries emotion, but it is not a diary and it is not therapy dressed up for an audience. It is a practice: attention, rhythm, colour, problem-solving, and the occasional argument with a surface that refuses to behave.

If this resonates, you might enjoy the blog — I write openly about making, neurodivergence, and what it actually feels like to keep going.

Community

I also help organise creative activity through CREW Arts, part of the Auchterarder Picturehouse CREW ecosystem. CREW is about barrier-free creativity: exhibitions, workshops, games, books, drama, writing, travelling cinema, and the kind of local creative infrastructure that helps people start, return, and keep going.

That community work sits alongside my own art because I do not think creativity should be reserved for people who already feel confident calling themselves artists.

Data, Systems and the Other Half of My Brain

I have also spent many years working in data, analytics, AI, and decision-making. That part of my life has not disappeared; it turns up in my interest in systems, evidence, uncertainty, attention, technology, and the gap between what people say is rational and what people actually do.

I co-host The Confusion Matrix, a podcast about data, technology, AI, and the gap between what organisations say they want from data and what they actually do with it. It is loose, sceptical, occasionally funny, and deliberately free of hype. My co-host Pete Hodge and I bring half-formed provocations to the table and see what holds up. Available wherever you get your podcasts.

If you are looking for the data side of my work, LinkedIn is the best route.

Explore

You can explore the work in the gallery, browse available originals and prints in the shop, read longer reflections on the blog, or join the newsletter for studio notes, new work, exhibitions, and the occasional unvarnished thought about art, attention, and being human.