About Me

Art That Moves the Soul

Welcome to my virtual home, a place where the different threads of my creative life come together through painting, writing, healing and enquiry.

I’m Alex Florschutz, a British artist, author and trained Art Psychotherapist, based between Bali and the UK. For much of my life, I have been interested in creativity as a way of exploring what it means to be human: our relationship with body and soul, love and loss, birth and becoming, and the possibility of transformation.

At the heart of my work is a lifelong enquiry into the human experience and our relationship with a reality that may extend beyond the material.

Whether through paint or words, I am interested in the places where opposites meet: darkness and light, body and spirit, vulnerability and strength, contraction and expansion, desire and love.

Thank you for visiting. Make yourself at home, wander, explore, and see what moves you.

Art That Moves the Soul

I create my paintings intuitively through layers of colour, texture, gesture and form. Images emerge, disappear and transform during the process, often revealing something I hadn’t consciously intended.

Recurring forms suggest portals, thresholds, the body, the feminine and the natural world, while remaining open to the imagination of the viewer.

I am interested in how light might penetrate what has become dense or hardened, allowing something new to emerge. The ancient idea of alchemy, the transformation of matter, has increasingly become a metaphor within my practice for the transformation of the human being.

I believe art can do more than communicate an idea.

It can move the soul.

I have exhibited in more than 100 exhibitions across the UK, Europe and Asia, including exhibitions connected with the Venice Biennale, the Houses of Parliament and the John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford. My artwork has also appeared on fashion and design products, book and magazine covers, and within projects bringing art and science into dialogue.

The feminine has been a recurring thread throughout my work, explored through birth, embodiment, creativity, sexuality, nature and the transformative forces of love.

Author and Storyteller

My writing extends many of these same enquiries into another medium.

I am the author of The Art of Birth and Irresistible Birth, and a contributing author to Womb to Thrive. My writing on birth and women’s innate body wisdom developed alongside many years of research, teaching and advocacy surrounding pregnancy, birth and early human development.

My work has appeared in The Lancet, Health Expectations, Juno Magazine, The Mother Magazine and international anthologies.

In 2025, I published Mad Enough to Love You: Desire, a departure into literary fiction and an exploration of longing, sexuality, love and awakening set in Bali.

Across these very different genres, I find myself returning to a surprisingly similar question:

What happens when we become more fully ourselves?

Art, Healing and Social Change

In 2016, I founded Zero2 Expo and created the Birthing a Better Future Art and Science Exhibition at the UK Houses of Parliament.

The project subsequently travelled to venues including Oxford’s John Radcliffe Hospital and The Fitzrovia Chapel, bringing artists, scientists, health professionals and the public together around the importance of the first 1001 days of human life.

My evaluation of the exhibition was published in The Lancet, exploring the potential of art to influence understanding, empathy and engagement with complex health and social issues.

I have continued to collaborate with researchers and academics, including Professor Monica Lakhanpaul at UCL, exploring the territory where creativity, science and human experience meet.

Creativity and Healing

As a trained Art Psychotherapist, I have worked within clinical and community settings, including neurorehabilitation, as well as facilitating workshops exploring creativity, embodiment and personal transformation.

These experiences continue to inform my understanding of creativity, but I don’t see art simply as therapy.

Creating is, in itself, a fundamental human act.

Painting can reach somewhere language cannot. A story can allow us to recognise something about ourselves. An image can stir a feeling before we understand why.

Across everything I create, these different strands ultimately return to the same enquiry:

How do we meet life, how are we transformed by it, and how might creativity help us encounter something deeper within ourselves.