Alan Streets

Alan Russell Cowen (AKA Alan Streets) is a British born artist that has been painting since the age of 8, and is primarily self-taught. He spent the first 10 years of his life after high school in NYC painting and exhibiting. He specializes in stylized landscapes, and also uses brush and canvas to manifests his daily psychedelic perceptions. In spite of being a very humble and unassuming artist, Alan has not been able to escape the influence of the media and his extraordinary artworks and life style have been widely documented. Alan Streets stars in the award winning documentary, "My Name Is Alan and I Paint Pictures", which covers six years of his life and focuses on the relationship between his diagnosis as a paranoid schizophrenic and his struggle to find success in the art world. The documentary examines Alan's life, the role art and painting play in it, and how mental illness intertwines with artistic creation and perception. Alan's works have been exhibited in many parts of the world from the US to Australia. Alan Streets has been painting since the age ofAlan Streets has been painting since the age ofAlan Streets has been painting since the age of 8, and is primarily self-taught. He specializes in stylized landscapes, and also uses brush and canvas to manifests his daily psychedelic perceptions.