The result is wide acceptance of Giclee by galleries, museums, and private collectors.
Alan's paintings and drawings are mostly figurative and include portraits, landscapes, sea pictures, still lifes and nudes, though the sea pictures are really metaphors for moods and emotions. He is influenced by the Ukiyo-e printmakers of Japan such as Utamaro, Hokusai and Hiroshige as well as Western artists such as Holbein, Schiele and Toulouse-Lautrec, and, in the case of the sea pictures, the American Colour Field painters, Morris Louis, Mark Rothko and Jackson Pollock.