Coffee and Conversation at Bond Street, North Laine, Brighton

This print depicts a late-summer view from my studio balcony in Brighton’s North Laine. Across Bond Street, a couple hold hands outside a café while a noisy seagull watches from above. The composition brings together a collection of details from the street: a shop window filled with bread, a bicycle, marble and brick patterns, and a John Craxton-inspired cat. I have also introduced a Picasso influence, reflecting my connection with Málaga, where my mother was born. This is the view from my studio at Studio Greenhouse, a cooperative of creative people working under one roof. With almost ten years in the studio, I am creating a series of prints celebrating the places, people and everyday details that surround me and have become part of my life.

Giclée print. Limited edition of 100.

Dimensions: 29.7 x 42 cm (A3).

alej ez is Alejandro Martinez Rodriguez, an architect and contemporary printmaker based in Brighton. His practice evolved from a lifelong passion for drawing, combining architectural precision with expressive ink, texture and colour. Inspired by direct experience and the act of “standing and staring”, he finds order within everyday chaos. Working from his photographs, he creates handmade drawings that are digitally layered and coloured, producing individually signed limited-edition art prints. Love life, love art!