Alec Cumming (b. 1986, Norwich, UK) is a British painter celebrated for his bold use of colour, playful abstraction, and a deep engagement with place and atmosphere. His work captures the vivid intersection between memory, culture, and environment—translating fleeting experiences of light, rhythm, and architecture into immersive, expressive canvases.
A graduate of Norwich University of the Arts (BA Hons Fine Art, 2007), Cumming has developed an international career that bridges East and West. After establishing a studio at the Niv Art Centre in South Delhi, he spent three transformative years in India, where the intensity of colour, texture, and urban life became central to his visual language. His cross-cultural perspective continues to shape his practice, blending the lyrical informality of British painting traditions with the vibrancy and immediacy of South Asian modernism.
Cumming has exhibited widely in the UK, Europe, India, and the United States. He was the youngest artist to hold a solo exhibition with the British Council in India and has been featured in nine editions of the India Art Fair, where he was named “One to Watch” in 2016. His 2017 residency with Dyad Creative—produced in collaboration with museums in India and The South Asia Collection in the UK—culminated in Dialogues with India, a monumental series of mural-scale works exploring memory and material narrative.
In recent years, Cumming has extended his practice to Los Angeles and Cyprus, exhibiting with The Edit Gallery and participating in international art fairs. His paintings are held in private and public collections across the world, known for their sense of openness, joy, and curiosity—an invitation to pause within the noise of modern life and rediscover the colour in ordinary moments.
Now based in the countryside near Norwich, Alec Cumming continues to work between the UK and abroad, creating paintings that resonate with a universal language of movement, emotion, and light.
