About

Biography

Alison is a painter, arts enabler and educator from Somerset.

She has a HND in Graphic Design from Somerset University and a BSc Hons Geography from Derby University. Alison was a branded packaging and marketing designer in London and worked for many well known clients.

Alison was a founder member of Contains Art in Watchet and Hatch Langport, is a member of Gallery4Art and a studio holder at East Quay Watchet. Her paintings have won her awards at The Atkinson Gallery Open Exhibition and the Quartz Festival Taunton. Her multimedia piece The Stolford Weather Report created during lockdown was awarded a bursary to exhibit at The Princess Theatre Burnham on Sea.

Statement

Coming from a traditional painting and drawing background I have become increasingly curious about how Artists paint and visually interpret the world with modern technology.

In 2012 I went to the David Hockney ‘A Bigger Picture’ Exhibition at the Royal Academy which changed how I understood digital technology and painting. And I have been experimenting with it ever since.

I am interested in working outside and from life and am a natural documenter. I also enjoy the endless possibilities of filmmaking as a medium.

It fascinates me our ideas about perception and the visual world and how that is changing now more of us are immersed in a digital environment. I believe art-making using the iPad can help people reconnect with the world around them rather than just distracting themselves from reality. New generations could be better engaged, more caring and more creative rather than just a consumer of it. iPad artists are also progressively connected and there is a wealth of collaborative work to be found online raising the question of what is an original work of art and does there need to be an original anyway?

Alison is based in Watchet and has a studio at the new East Quay building. You can visit her at studio 9 or browse through her work here.