Born in Glasgow 1964. Studied painting and film making at Edinburgh College of Art 1983-87.
Artist, writer and performer whose works have featured at many exhibitions of contemporary figure art including; The Scottish Portrait Awards, the BP Portrait exhibition at the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Threadneedle Prize for Figurative Art, the Society of Portrait Sculptors exhibition and The Ruth Borchard self portrait exhibition. In 2014 he was a semi-finalist in the Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the year.
He has exhibited widely throughout the UK and internationally in group shows in South Korea, Portugal, Finland, Italy, the Czech Republic and the USA, and at the Westbeth Gallery in New York.
Alan has taught drawing and painting at the Royal Academy in London, The National Portrait Gallery, Edinburgh College of Art, Dundee University, The Museum of London, The Royal Hibernian Academy in Dublin, Leith School of Art and the Royal Collection Gallery,
The "FLOW" theatre project premiered at the Edinburgh Festival in 2022 and then at the Glasgow Arts Club in 2023.