Isabel Alexander (1910-1996) was a British artist and illustrator known for her work in drawing, watercolour, oils, lithography, lino-printing, and three-dimensional work . Her output ranged from socially-engaged documentation of the lives and work of Welsh coalminers, Irish fishermen, and English farmworkers through book illustration to landscapes, seascapes, and abstracts . Alexander’s work is predominantly focused upon line, colour, and form .
During her lifetime, there were 36 public exhibitions of Alexander’s work, 27 of them joint and nine solo. Most of her works are in private collections, mainly in Britain but also in Australia, the United States, and China .