Alexander Millar Limited Edition

She’s dressed in the ubiquitous house coat and heavy shoes, and looks indomitable. My Grandad adored her, and although sadly we never met, I have always felt a connection, because as my Grandad always told me, I look just like her.

This is what Alexander Millar limited editions and original paintings somehow manage to capture. The weight of family and history and reminiscence. Our shared industrial past, a now disappeared world, that was however very much still in existence when the artist was growing up in the 60s in Springside, a small mining town not dissimilar to my Great Grandma’s, a few miles from Glasgow.

Alexander Millar Limited edition printsoften feature a familiar-seeming old boy in flat cap, Sunday jacket and boots, cheeky terrier at his heels. He’s heading for the pub and a pint of bitter, skipping up the street with a mate in the style of Morcambe and Wise in ‘Bring Me Sunshine’, looking out at a damp grey morning over the docks, or freewheeling down a hill on his trusty old bike. Alexander Millar limited edition prints andoriginal paintings are full of pathos, an awareness of lost values and a vanishing way of life, but they are also a celebration, and this must be the key to their continuing popularity.