Alexander Thomas Cooper-Rye

Painter & InterdiFF FEsciplinary Researcher

Paintings investigating attention, perception, and the surface of computational systems. Each work explores the boundary between human visual cognition and algorith00 6D 69 63mic pattern recognition.

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Circular masonite tondo. Charred greys and browns across the disc with scattered chalky white spalling, pitted texture reading as cratered planetary surface.

Mercury

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
25 × 25 cm
Square masonite. Warm yellow and ochre body filling the centre over a darker red underpainting, with a black mass crowning the top and a hovering green-and-white shape at upper left reading as a ring fragment.

Saturn

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
30 × 30 cm
Circular masonite tondo. Deep cobalt and indigo across most of the disc with a magenta-crimson core flaring near the upper centre. Pitted edges, atmospheric depth.

Neptune

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
20 × 20 cm
Square masonite. Heavy black asterisk of impasto erupting from the centre over a grey-brown ground, with magenta and pink stains bleeding through the surface and pale chalky deposits at the corners.

Moon Landing (Black)

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
45 × 45 cm
Square masonite. Pale cream and bone-white surface across the whole tile with subtle pink and grey blooms, traces of black mark-making near the upper edge, folded and creased texture.

Moon Landing (White)

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
45 × 45 cm
Rectangular masonite in landscape format. Scattered chromatic events across a pale silvery ground: magenta and dark crimson at left, golden yellow centre, deep ultramarine upper right, rust-orange band across the top. Reads as a sky-chart.

Planets

Medium:
Mixed media on found linen material (rug)
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
120 × 170 cm
Landscape painting on a weathered chalky-white ground. Teal-blue and ochre sweeps across the upper field with a dense green splatter centred and a darker pitted patch right of centre. Two drilled holes punctuate the surface.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on MDF
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
16 × 21 cm
Portrait painting on a chalky-white ground. A small pink-and-white printed square sits at upper left over a dark gritty patch; below, a violet wash and a green splatter mass cross diagonal scored lines. Three drilled holes near centre.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on MDF
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
30 × 25 cm
Large landscape painting. Splatter and transfer print in blues, reds, yellows, and greens over a white ground.

Bloom

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2023
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Portrait-format painting. Dense splatter in red, blue, green, and yellow over a white-flecked ground.

Portrait Bloom

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2023
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Large landscape painting. Gestural abstraction in pink, blue, ochre, and red; heavily scraped and worked surface.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2023
Dimensions:
90 × 120 cm
Large-scale oil painting. Dense impasto surface with pink, blue, gold, purple, and red paint applied in heavy gestural strokes with dramatic dripping.

Untitled (All Channels)

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Oil painting in gold, orange, magenta, and pink with heavy textural impasto. Yellow drips cascade from the left edge.

Contemporary

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Oil painting with pink and magenta masses at left bleeding into yellow at right. Heavy drips in dark purple and yellow.

CY20 201

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Oil painting dominated by warm yellows and oranges with magenta-pink eruption at upper left. Heavy vertical drips.

Yellow Drip

Medium:
Mixed media on masonite board
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
60 × 90 cm
Oil painting in fluorescent pink, magenta, and orange on white ground. Vertical gestural strokes with areas of heavy scraping.

Fluro I

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
40 × 65 cm
Oil painting in cadmium yellow and white with orange-red mass at lower right. Heavily worked surface.

Yellow

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
75 × 100 cm
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Oil painting in white and pale blue with subtle grey undertones. Atmospheric, restrained. Black marks at the lower edge.

White (Again)

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
75 × 100 cm
Square-format oil painting in deep cerulean and teal blue. Horizontal layering with emerging pink and green undertones.

Blue

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
50 × 50 cm
Square-format oil painting in blue-purple and lavender. Vertical emphasis with teal undertones. Restrained, meditative.

Purple

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
50 × 50 cm
Oil painting with teal, copper, and red tones. Weathered palimpsest quality with layers visible through scraping and erasure.

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Medium:
Mixed media on found wood substrate
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
85 × 65 cm
Square-format oil painting in vivid green with yellow and blue accents. Thick gestural application.

Green

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2016
Dimensions:
50 × 65 cm
Oil painting in turquoise and cyan with luminous central field. Heavily scraped surface with visible underpainting.

Blue

Medium:
Acrylic media on canvas
Year:
2016
Dimensions:
75 × 100 cm
Large-scale oil painting on dark ground. Explosive white marks against deep black, red, and dark green.

Untitled 4

Medium:
Mixed media on canvas
Year:
2015
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Six small-format oil paintings on white board. Gestural strokes in yellow, orange, red, green, blue, pink. Each canvas a single chromatic event.

Pixels 1–6

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm

49 small-format paintings. Each canvas a single pixel — one sample of chromatic information on a fixed substrate.

Four small oil paintings on board. Red-orange impasto, teal and blue scrawls, pink and orange sweeps, dark navy with red accent.

Pixels 4–8

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small oil paintings. Blue-navy masses, green diffuse washes, warm yellow-orange gestures on white ground.

Pixels 8–12

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small paintings. Teal and red washes, yellow-green impasto, purple and orange scrawls, olive and blue layered marks.

Pixels 16–20

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small oil paintings on white board. Warm and cool gestural marks, each canvas a single chromatic study.

Pixels 20–24

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small gestural paintings. Pink, orange, teal, yellow — high-chroma marks on white board.

Pixels 24–28

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small paintings. Dense gestural strokes, colours thickening — orange, green, magenta, blue layered with increasing confidence.

Pixels 28–32

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small paintings on board. Gestural abstraction, chromatic weight shifting — darker values entering the palette.

Pixels 32–36

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Four small paintings. Magenta, teal, orange, red — full-chroma gestures. Dark crimson sphere in one canvas, green masses in another.

Pixels 36–40

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Three small paintings. The palette narrowing — teal-green dominant, warm accents receding. Series approaching convergence.

Pixels 40–43

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Three small paintings. Cool greens and warm yellows, purple accents. Mark-making becoming more architectural.

Pixels 43–46

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Three small paintings. Teal-green gestural masses with pink and yellow accents. Final entries in the series — the distribution settling.

Pixels 46–49

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2025
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 50 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: pale green (RGB ~167,215,186). Numbered continuation of the series; #50 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 50

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 51 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: bright amber (RGB ~232,204,82). Numbered continuation of the series; #51 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 51

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 52 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: muted blue (RGB ~57,66,98). Numbered continuation of the series; #52 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 52

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 53 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: pale red-orange (RGB ~219,194,164). Numbered continuation of the series; #53 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 53

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 54 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: deep green (RGB ~35,62,33). Numbered continuation of the series; #54 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 54

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 55 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: yellow (RGB ~193,200,152). Numbered continuation of the series; #55 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 55

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 56 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: muted teal (RGB ~77,113,102). Numbered continuation of the series; #56 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 56

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 57 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: cyan (RGB ~9,134,186). Numbered continuation of the series; #57 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 57

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 58 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: deep indigo (RGB ~28,25,56). Numbered continuation of the series; #58 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 58

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 59 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: yellow-green (RGB ~148,213,31). Numbered continuation of the series; #59 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 59

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 61 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: pink (RGB ~210,7,63). Numbered continuation of the series; #61 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 61

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 62 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: cyan (RGB ~1,165,178). Numbered continuation of the series; #62 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 62

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm
Pixel 63 (2026) — 7.6 × 7.6 cm, mixed media on wooden board, square format. One panel in the Pixels series, which treats each board as a single sample of chromatic information — a pixel of paint. Dominant hue: off-white (RGB ~239,235,232). Numbered continuation of the series; #63 of an ongoing run.

Pixel 63

Medium:
Mixed media on wooden board
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
7.6 × 7.6 cm

Works on Pa70 65 72per

Watercolour on textured paper. Red-pink sphere at upper left, blue washes at centre, yellow at lower right.

Work on Paper 044

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper. Pink, blue, and yellow washes blending softly. Ethereal.

Work on Paper 038

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper. Purple and teal washes with lavender accents on creased white paper.

Work on Paper 001

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper. Soft atmospheric washes in pink, blue, yellow, and green.

Work on Paper 045

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper. Rich colour saturation with blues, pinks, and warm tones.

Work on Paper 046

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper. Warm and cool tones in atmospheric balance.

Work on Paper 040

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
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Watercolour on textured paper. Complex layering of transparent colour washes.

Work on Paper 042

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 043

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 039

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 036

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 035

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 034

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 033

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 037

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Dimensions:
28 × 23 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 026

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 015

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 014

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2020
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 004

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
29 × 20 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 003

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
29 × 20 cm
Watercolour on textured paper.

Work on Paper 002

Medium:
Watercolour on paper
Year:
2019
Dimensions:
29 × 20 cm

Comb69 6E 65 73ines

Tall combine of horizontal wood slats. Copper and steely-grey washes across the surface with a neon green and yellow burst at the top and a red-orange chevron at lower left.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on reclaimed wood
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
30 × 19 × 2 cm
Portrait combine of horizontal wood slats in raw timber tone. A vivid green splatter pools near the top edge; a centred red bloom in the middle band; sparse black drips at lower left.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on reclaimed wood
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
24 × 18 × 2 cm
Irregular wood-block combine, a smaller plank set beside a larger one. Green and black smears wash across both; a buttery-yellow splotch and a red field saturate the right edge.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media on reclaimed wood
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
12 × 14 × 2 cm
Round wood disc with a purple-magenta fabric binding at the rim. Inner surface in maroon, oxblood, and copper tones; pitted texture with a darker central core and a turquoise flare at upper left.

Untitled

Medium:
Mixed media and materials on MDF
Year:
2026
Dimensions:
50 × 50 × 1.5 cm

Painter, Interdisciplinary Researcher & Creative Technologist