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Born in Vancouver, Canada, Alex Merrell grew up immersed in the breathtaking landscapes of coastal wilderness. Artists in her orbit provided early influence: the stone carving and metal work of her father, the ancient tapestry weaving techniques of her mother, and a community of notable makers, including Indigenous artists exploring the Sacred through traditional practices. Merrell felt herself, from a young age, equally part of the natural world and in communion with the Divine.

Merrell sees her artistic practice as a quest to reflect the Eternal by discovering where classical and contemporary wisdom and aesthetics intersect to reveal timeless truths. Her current body of work explores a unique dialect of form, in which elements of the anatomical are synthesized with geometric abstraction to manifest the coexistence of physical and immaterial truth. This development of visual language explores what can be best conveyed and perceived not only through sight, but through feeling.

Understanding the creative act as a collaboration with source, she sees each work resting at a connection point between the physical world and the divine realm, a portal between the Seen and Unseen. Not belonging to a single culture or era, her figures appear suspended in time. Simultaneously monumental in their presence yet vulnerable in their humanity, they represent the power of the soul’s divinity, the poignant fragility of the body’s experience, and the transformative potential of the incarnated journey.