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artportfolio: Alice Leach


I met my true love by the vast ocean

I met my true love by the vast ocean

Original
Oil on Paper
64cm x 126cm

Introduction

Statement

 

 

My work is concerned with emotion, with memory and loss. It is the ethereal instability of both memory and emotion that has increasingly come to influence my painting. The basis of my practice is shaped by my visual diary, which in turn is shaped by my life. I update it daily – a random, unpredictable record of the day’s events, left raw and unfinished.

I embrace various materials and techniques including printmaking and sculpture. I do not try to control or restrain my process of working. I have no desire for perfection or neatness. I prefer an unvarnished approach where things are allowed to develop. Apparent inaccuracies become embedded in the work much as they do in life.

 

 

 


Biography

1968Born in London
Lives and works in Devon
Education - Dartington Hall School, Devon
1987Foundation at Chelsea School of Art, London
1990 -1993First Class Degree, City & Guilds of London Art School, London
1993Executive Committee Prize for outstanding work, City & Guilds of London Art School
2011A4 Print Competition Prize

"Alice Leach received a First Class degree from City & Guilds of London Art School in 1993, but only found the confidence to be a full-time painter in her late twenties. However, it wasn’t until she was forced to face the inherent conflict of being an artist and a single mother a few years ago, that she found her niche. Combining drawing, painting and the spoken word, she started a visual diary to which she has since added individual works of art depicting her most intimate, private and uncensored thoughts and feelings on an almost daily basis. Her life-long fascination with the basic, raw and immediate approach of Dubuffet, Cy Twombly and Canadian Inuit artists becomes evident in this tremendous and ever-growing body of work, which exposes the fragility of the everyday and inspires/suggests a different, more vicarious view of life. " Joy Collective