Craig Alan | Cocotte Calligraphy or simply to the tradition

or simply to the tradition of landscape painting as emotional response rather than topographical record

His studio is prolific

The Cosmic Carpark works are not celebrity art projects — they are the sustained record of a private practice

Each of his Populus works is constructed from hundreds of meticulously hand-painted miniature figures — tiny people who

The work is about expansion

Craig Alan | Cocotte Calligraphy or simply to the traditionCraig Alan Cocotte Original Populus series Cocotte the French term for a kept woman, a courtesan, a figure of luxury and transgression gives Craig Alan's Populus method a subject that suits it perfectly. Each of Alan's works is built from hundreds of individually painted miniature figures that resolve, at the correct distance, into a single coherent image. The effect is cinematic: a work that changes as you approach it, offering one reading from