Alex Elbers is a contemporary mixed media artist born in 1986 in Venray and based in Eygelshoven, the Netherlands. His practice centers on material control, perception, and construction, working primarily with self made inks, acrylics, and oil paints on layered and cut canvas.Best known for intricate, multilayered compositions developed through cutting, stacking, and reconstructing canvas fragments. These physical interventions create depth, tension, and shifting light interactions that change with the viewer’s position. The work is deliberate and labor intensive, prioritizing structure, surface, and perception over gesture or narrative.This approach is articulated through a method he refers to as Refracted Memories. Rather than depicting memory, the work examines how fragmented color, pattern, and texture can trigger residual emotional responses. Visual elements remain unresolved, allowing perception to stay incomplete and open, closer to a sensed experience than a recalled image.Alongside this, He is developing In Situ With You ∞, an ongoing series in which the composition is intentionally not fixed. The works remain open to alteration and reconfiguration by the collector, allowing each piece to evolve beyond the studio. This openness is a core principle of the series, shifting authorship from a closed object to a shared, continuous process shaped by place, time, and engagement. The infinity symbol underscores this refusal of finality.The visual language draws from natural forms and systems of disruption and concealment. His practice focuses on constructed abstraction and the mechanics of seeing.His work is held in private national and international collections.