A prolific and compulsive painter, Basil Alkazzi has exhibited 
regularly in London, and in the United States. He has mounted 
some eighteen selected One Man Exhibitions, and participated in 
twice as many group exhibitions. His work is in the collections 
of a great many museums in the USA and in Europe.



Basil Alkazzi's painting is characterized by Spiritual and
Metaphysical components which at once make it of deep significance
to the beholder. The unresolved yet beautiful mysteries, alive
with suspended drama, throb in the air and permeate the paintings
..."His paintings represent the materialization of poems in visual 
terms unwritten yet redolent of many remembered.  Time and 
growth are instrumental in motivating his imagery."



He has always, from time to time, found the need to withdraw
from the pressures of exhibitions, in order to create a new body 
of work, to concentrate upon and to explore the range and 
fecundity of his talent, and the techniques for expressing them.
His vibrant body of new work displays a much greater sense of 
freedom and command of his métier.



In his recent paintings Basil Alkazzi continues the quest to pursue 
an intensely felt vision. The trees in the Sunset and Midsummer 
Night series resemble human forms, awaiting beatitude.  Elsewhere,
there is an intense meditation on the flora inducing a strange 
spiritual calm to the viewer, yet making one look deeper, reaching 
towards the core of celebration let loose in a sensory world of 
nature’s sensual and mysterious Life-force.  Here everything 
connects within the harmony of the Universe at once both mystical 
and with an overwhelming sense of awe.



A cosmopolitan, he has traveled extensively and for long periods
of time through the whole of Western Europe, and for a time he
lived in Greece.  Since 1985 he became enamored with America, and
all that it stands for and aspires to, and since when he continued
to spends  periods of time in New York.  From 1995 until 2000 he 
was granted residence in the USA as: An Artist of Exceptional 
Ability in the Arts.  He now resides in the South of France.



His generosity to other artists took on the form of endowments
and awards.  In 1986 he established The Basil H. Alkazzi
Foundation Awards at the eminent Royal College of Art, 
London with an endowment set in trust and perpetuity.  He
himself continues to judge these awards annually, along with
an invited guest co-judge.



In 1987 he established The Basil H. Alkazzi Award (USA)
for young and emerging painters in America.  Two years later in 
commemoration, The Sheldon Bergh Award (USA) was created for 
the best runner-up to the main  award. The purpose of these awards 
was in essence to give the recipient a means to withdraw, re-nourish, 
and create a new body of work without much outside pressure. 
As the number of applications grew, the running of the awards
occupied some three months of Basil Alkazzi's own personal time.
It is because these two awards consumed so much of his own 
creative time and energy, that they were suspended in 2000.
He however continues to support the artists as and when needed.



Recent publications include: "Mystic Dreamscapes- The Art of Basil
Alkazzi"  by George S. Whittet, and "Portraits: Strangers No
Longer Strangers, Now Acquaintances, Friends, Lovers..."
Photo-Montages by Basil Alkazzi, both Museum NECCA Publications,
USA 1989; "Basil Alkazzi- New Seasons..." by Max Wykes-Joyce &
"Within the Dreams..." by Basil Alkazzi.[1993]; 
"Basil Alkazzi- New Horizons..."by Donald Kuspit, [1998]; 
"Basil Alkazzi- The Rites of Spring..." by Donald Kuspit, [2000]; 
All three Izumi Art Publications, C.I;   "Resonant Echoes-" by Dennis 
Wepman, [2007], a K. IZUMI Art Publication Ltd, Tokyo/London. 

		
In 1993 he wrote, directed, and narrated a 21 minute 16 mm film, 
a highly personal and moving visual journey of his paintings of a 
decade: Basil Alkazzi- New Seasons & Dreams 1984-1993.