Alan Streets is an Outsider Artist from England. He was born in Roehampton, in 1969.
He became interested in Art and showed an aptitude for Art at an early age. He started to paint consistently and eventually gained a place for a Foundation Course at St.Martins School of Art in London.
He didn’t complete the course and he went to New York instead to be an artist on his own terms. In New York he was hired to paint murals in various nightclubs and he also sold paintings on the street.
His paintings are influenced by Graffiti Art and also by Bruegel, Hieronymus Bosch and Salvador Dali.
When he was 23 he was diagnosed with schizophrenia. He moved back to England to be treated for schizophrenia. At this time and all through the 1990’s he was represented by the Nicholas Treadwell Gallery.
In 2000 he decided to move back to America and he began painting plein-air in New York in all Boroughs as well as in numerous other American cities. In 2007 a documentary about his career as a plein-air Artist in New York was released called “My name is Alan and I paint pictures”. This film won 2 Academy awards and was also shown on the Sky Arts Channel.
He had to return to England in 2010 to be retreated for schizophrenia as he had started to become unwell. Back on medication his work output increased and he started creating more paintings than he had painted when he was unwell. Since then he has been representing himself through his website.
At this time he started woodcarving as well which he taught himself, and he has created a large collection of woodcarvings. In 2021 and 2022 he painted an illustrated book about his schizophrenia.
This informative book can be bought on this website.
Most of his painting techniques and all of his woodcarving is self taught and he has been categorised as an Outsider Artist.
All his latest work is added to this website and he hopes that viewers enjoy his Art!
Links
My Name is Alan film:
Outside In Gallery
- Alan Streets in ‘Outside In On Film’
- Alan Streets featured on Outside in website
- Outside In exhibition 2012