Here’s my write up for my forthcoming exhibition in the Upper Gallery Lauderdale House, Highgate. Everyone is welcome to the Private view on Wednesday 26th April from 7.30 -9.30, and then every day during opening times until Monday 22nd May. Come one, come all!

Alice is an artist and actor based in North London. Her first solo exhibition explores moments in everyday life, both human and in nature. Each picture tells a story with direct brushstrokes capturing a quality of energy and movement.

Working primarily as a theatre actor, Alice began to seek an additional creative outlet when motherhood slowed down her touring lifestyle. One day she began doodling with her children's crayons on a scrap of corrugated cardboard. Having done no drawing since school she loved it, the quick choices of colour and line to capture her son's actions. Her fine art journey had begun.

Alice's pictures were selected for local exhibitions and arts showcases at Arts Depot, North Finchley. Portrait commissions followed, some on the wonderfully textured corrugated cardboard. She continues to explore a wide range of techniques including left handed drawing, with which she won the Life Drawing prize at Hampstead School of Art.

In lockdown Alice's work necessarily progressed from portraits to landscapes, mainly painting in oil. A desire to be outside whatever the weather, led to a fascination with the changing seasons and dramatic shifting skies. This enabled her to explore the same themes of energy and movement in landscapes that had drawn her to portraiture. She now enjoys painting both forms, seeking to capture the feeling of a particular moment in time.

Alongside her paintings which are mainly for sale, Alice will be selling prints of other work.