A self-taught American artist born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Alloyius Mcilwane has been passionate about the arts since childhood. Alloyius has been painting and drawing daily since he was 3 years old, following his own desires and working without any preconceived ideas. As he puts it so well, “the idea of appealing to an emotional response through the use of color, shapes, textures, and composition has always fascinated me.”

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At a young age, Alloyius quickly developed a taste for these elements through working with comics, devoting himself diligently and faithfully to reproducing the drawings down to the very last detail. A few years later, fueled by his own personal discoveries, the young artist set out to experiment with different media and styles to finally develop his own pictorial writing.His artistic language lies between figuration and abstraction, incorporating elements from both urban and pop art and it is resolutely free and contemporary. Whether he is working on canvas or on walls, Alloyius spontaneously and naturally takes pleasure in coating surfaces with large colored planes to give rise to pictorial, and extremely dynamic, creations.He is also a muralist and has painted murals across the globe—from Japan to France, Costa Rica to Morocco—and has also covered many public and private facades all around his native country with his unique signature. As an artist, Alloyius is as enthusiastic as he is passionate, and likes to disseminate his works to cover cities with bright and joyful splashes of color.

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