Alex Akers-Douglas
The collector behind Gallery Doozy
Alex has been a voracious collector all his life. From a varied array of suspect collections as a child, and throughout the years to come, he developed a keen eye and honed a passion for understanding everything he could about a certain subject and acquiring a small collection of each “of the best of its kind”. This might include match strikers, walking sticks, Lucite sculptures, tribal art, taxidermy, and now with a serious focus on modern art and post-war paintings from around the world.
Alex was a skilled and enthusiastic painter himself at school and has always remained interested in the history of art and the art market. In 2001, he set up his own successful property developing business, and it is his ability to apply his creativity to all aspects of the company – to inspire his clients with not only his vision for a development, but his understanding of interiors and their historical references, the interior design itself, and his artistic knowledge offered wherever he could – which is unusual for a property developer and has hugely contributed to the success of his company.
Throughout, his unerring love of paintings, decorative arts and the artists behind them has culminated over the years in a collection of original and stylish art – each piece carefully considered and selected and for sale in what has been a long-held dream, now realised in Gallery Doozy.