Alan Ibell is a painter based in New Zealand (b. Christchurch). He studied Painting at the Otago Polytechnic School of Art in Dunedin, New Zealand. Alan spent several years in Melbourne before returning to New Zealand in 2016. He is currently based in Auckland, NZ.
Ibell is interested in painting as narrative and uses figuration as a way to convey a poetic or abstract visual experience. To this end he casts imagery from dreams, memories, personal anxieties and existential musings into the works to create absurd human narratives about transition and the search for fulfilment, be it spiritual or other. The painting takes on the form of an object upon which to meditate, a space for contemplation.