6 Alej ez love life love art!

Flat 5, 16 Brunswick Sq, Hove, BN3 1EH

Let’s celebrate Brighton at its best: its vibrant, multicultural people; the blue skies and seas of summer days; and the historic, beautiful landmarks across the city. Let’s intertwine these living experiences and express them through art.

I am Alej Ez, shortened from Alejandro Martinez Rodriguez. I am an architect and printmaker from Seville, Spain, living and working in Brighton. I am the AOH 2026 brochure cover artist. My subjects include Sussex landscapes, the South Downs, the cliffs and cities, as well as architectural, floral, and storytelling scenes with people. I create pigment prints from hand-drawn monochrome ink drawings, to which I apply colour digitally, and issue them as limited editions.

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Flat 5, 16 Brunswick Sq, Hove, BN3 1EH

Modern Bathers Brighton is a print rooted in personal experience, art history, and Brighton’s layered identity. The word “Bathers” refers both to the historic tradition of sea bathing in Brighton and to the artist’s own life as a passionate swimmer. It nods especially to Martha Gunn, the town’s most famous eighteenth-century “dipper,” who helped bathers into the sea using bathing machines. The title also hints at the modern technology of swimsuits, linking past and present forms of bathing. “Modern” connects the work to Modernism in art history. The print echoes Paul Cézanne’s bathers, as well as Pablo Picasso, and later British Modernists such as John Craxton and John Piper. These references place the work within a broader artistic lineage while reinterpreting it in a contemporary coastal context. The print is also a celebration of Brighton’s architectural and seaside character. It brings together landmarks including Sea Lanes and Madeira Drive, the Royal Crescent, the arches along the seafront, Marine Parade’s Georgian and Victorian terraces, the historic Volks Electric Railway, and the Brighton Palace Pier. Rather than depicting a single, literal viewpoint, the scene is a collage of lived experience—drawn from a summer week of swimming at Sea Lanes—merging memory, movement, and place. At its core, Modern Bathers weaves together personal ritual, local history, Modernist influence, and Brighton’s built and maritime landscape into one layered composition.

Modern Bathers Brighton
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Angel Basketball
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Modern Bathers. Two friends pause at Sea Lanes before their swim. The sun hits the water and the city shimmers behind them. You can spot the Volks Railway, Royal Crescent, Marine Parade, Madeira Terrace, and further out, the Palace Pier and the i360. This print comes out of my love of swimming, architecture, the human figure, and love itself. “All shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich. It became the cover for the Artists Open Houses Festival 2026. I build the image from ink drawings, piece them together as a collage, then add colour digitally. The final work exists as a digital original, printed as a limited edition using archival inks on paper, from A0 to A4. The title Modern Bathers Brighton holds a few threads: Modern nods to Modernism—Cézanne, Picasso, and British painters like Craxton and Piper. Bathers brings in Brighton’s sea-swimming history, especially Martha Gunn, and my own life in the water, training year-round with Out to Swim. Brighton is a constructed view—a collage of places rather than a single viewpoint—drawn from time spent swimming and walking the seafront.

Two friends pause at Sea Lanes before their swim. The sun hits the water and the city shimmers behind them. You can spot the Volks Railway, Royal Crescent, Marine Parade, Madeira Terrace, and further out, the Palace Pier and the i360. This print comes out of my love of swimming, architecture, the human figure, and love itself. “All shall be well.” — Julian of Norwich. It became the cover for the Artists Open Houses Festival 2026. I build the image from ink drawings, piece them together as a collage, then add colour digitally. The final work exists as a digital original, printed as a limited edition using archival inks on paper, from A0 to A4. The title Modern Bathers Brighton holds a few threads: Modern nods to Modernism—Cézanne, Picasso, and British painters like Craxton and Piper. Bathers brings in Brighton’s sea-swimming history, especially Martha Gunn, and my own life in the water, training year-round with Out to Swim. Brighton is a constructed view—a collage of places rather than a single viewpoint—drawn from time spent swimming and walking the seafront.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Angel Basketball, Brighton A mother and son play basketball by the sea. The ball becomes a sun. I once heard that Jean Cocteau based his angels on sailors playing basketball—here mine is real, grounded, raising a child. This image was also selected for the Artists Open Houses Festival 2026. I build the image from ink drawings, piece them together as a collage, then add colour digitally. The final work exists as a digital original, printed as a limited edition using archival inks on paper, from A0 to A4. The setting is the Brighton seafront, close to where I live and worked as artist in residence with the West Pier Trust. The basketball court, the i360, the sailing club, the arches—everything is part of daily life here. Even the golden spiral and the dancers come from Thursday evenings on the seafront. Like all my work, it’s a mix of observation, memory, and invention—held together through drawing.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Sunday Harvest at the Allotment A figure walks down the hill with a basket of vegetables balanced on his head. Behind him, the red-brick London Road Viaduct frames the view, opening through its arches to the city and the sea beyond, where the Rampion Wind Farm sits on the horizon. The print is a small celebration of everyday life—growing food, moving through the city, and being outdoors under clear skies. This third design for the Artists Open Houses Festival features my friend Dominic, who grows vegetables on his allotment and shares them generously. He also helps run Round Hill Green Spaces, working to make his neighbourhood greener. The image is built from ink drawings, assembled into a collage and coloured digitally. It exists as a digital original and is released as a limited edition pigment print on archival paper, from A0 to A4.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Dragons Ditty – Royal Pavilion Garden The Royal Pavilion rises from gardens of jasmine and sweet william, while dragons weave, fly, and mingle among the flowers. The sky above becomes a patterned field—Japanese-inspired clouds, blossoming trees, and geometric motifs merging with nature. This print nods to two of my favourite artists: Hokusai, for his natural motifs and compositional approach, and Chen Rong, whose Nine Dragons handscroll I saw at the V&A in 2013. I built the image from separate ink drawings, each like a plate, layered into a single design. The Pavilion itself is John Nash’s 1815 Indo-Saracenic creation—domes, towers, and minarets painted to look like Bath stone.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Butterfly Dragon Gliding through the Porte Cochere A mischievous bearded dragon sails through the Pavilion’s Porte-Cochere. Clouds, blossoming branches, birds, and geometric patterns echo Hokusai, while the dragons recall Chen Rong’s Nine Dragons. Built from layered ink drawings, each sheet contributes to the final print.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Twin Dragons Flying through the India Gate Two playful dragons twist through the India Gate at the Pavilion Garden. Layers of architecture, garden, sky, and dragon create a lively, flowing composition inspired by Hokusai and Chen Rong.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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Songbird Dragon Traversing the North Gate A bearded dragon squeezes through the North Gate, dancing through clouds, trees, and garden paths. As with the others, the image comes together from separate ink drawings, echoing my homage to Hokusai and Chen Rong.
alej ez
Limited edition pigment print from original monochrome ink drawings coloured digitally
A4 £40 - A3 £52 - A2 £132 - A1 £180 - A0 £310
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