Alex Tolstoy is a watercolour artist from Virginia who went astray. Her paintings usually have a germ of reality but then deteriorate into something blurry and abstract where the viewer supplied most of a missing picture. Animals pop in and out of a mist of lost edges, buildings simplify into lines. Perhaps Dr, Tolstoy's previous list as a mathematician was an omen of things to come, she just cannot stay within the lines now!

Alex has won awards, had articles published about her work, given demonstrations, and has been in over 160 exhibitions with over a dozen solo or semi-solo shows since 2013. She is a member of numerous societies, both local and national and her work is in private and corporate collection (such as the Ritz-Carlton) and is distributed throughout the US, Great Britain, Canada, Japan and the US embassy in Barbados.