About
Alison is a Contemporary artist based in rural Essex. Her practice responds to themes around our interconnectedness to the natural world and how these connections echo the ever changing intricacies of the human experience.
In 2024 Alison gained a Masters Degree in Painting from the Royal College of Art in London.
She has a Degree in Textile Design from Chelsea College of Art and Design (1992) and then worked in the Fashion Industry for 20 years designing visual concepts for Premium Fashion Brands.
She took time out to have children and slowly started her painting practice when her boys were young.
Since graduating from the RCA she has exhibited in London and Essex, has hosted workshops and is involved in community art programmes within Essex and the south east.
Artist Statement
'Growth, Transformation, dormancy and renewal; The cycles of the seasons set the pace yet we often resist these natural patterns in our own lives. The ephemeral moments that we overlook, yet long to cling to once they’re gone.
I record these intricate shifts whilst walking or running. I explore organic process through manifold observations and snapshots of the tiny details in whisper thin natural forms sharing space with shards of discarded materials. The shapes and the tangled lines, the contours, layers, patterns and edges, fractured and fluid.
During my research, I create an iterative diary of my environment through collecting, drawing, collage, paint and fragile 3D assemblages precariously taped, pinned and balanced; as if on the verge of collapse.
The Materiality in my practice is a response to these fragments of time and brevity, strength and fragility. Using prosaic everyday discarded packaging, theatrical spaces may emerge and form an enforced observation platform, illuminating the overlooked and the hidden details of nature’s vitality. Broken Slate Roof tiles are the support to tarnished metals. Corrugated card and tissues that dissolve hold drawings of weeds and natural detritus. Meandering lines of wire find form and arteries of paint flow in the folds of peeling paper.
Imbued in these multi layered backdrops are themes of intimacy, opposition, vulnerability and the shapeshifting character of motherhood and the body'.