Written by Samantha Powell.
Alice’s paintings
are a series of city scapes painted in acrylic, she creates these images on
wood, paper and canvas. Her paintings range from a small to large scale. The
paintings also range in styles of borders and orientation, she has produced her
pieces with a pallet knife which creates a more 3D texture and a very
intriguing series of mark making which suggest she is trying to create a
certain feeling or emotion within the images.
Before
talking to Alice about her work I viewed her studio space and during that
viewing I was very interested in the mark making in particular, because of its
sketchy appearance and also the brilliant contrast of colours, they seem almost
dream like because off the blurred and sketchy marks the pallet knife makes,
and it gives the questioning to is it a memory? Or a dream its self?
After
talking to Alice I understood that the reasons for the specific look and
texture were to transfer how she felt about these environments, she took a
mixture of images from different places in London and Leicester and created
them to show the underground urban personalities of both these places. She also
in doing this subconsciously created a vision of what could be memories and
feelings from people who have encountered these places, giving her work a
massive body of different viewers who would easily fall for and enjoy her work.
Some quotes
from Alice herself about her work include when simply asked why paintings of
this kind she replied “I enjoy painting the environment and expressing its
urban side” also “my influence if I was to have one would me Sabine Moritz
because of her environmental works.” Alice states that if she was to develop
this work she would go to a much larger scale and use other tools to create her
mark making other than a pallet knife to get out of her comfort zone.
Reading through this statement written by Sam, I find it very positive and it is clear that she listened to me when we did our interviews taking note of the points I made successfully.
