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Alice Pallett

Life’s experiences demand a response.  Painting, shaping. collecting and assembling are the way I give form to my emotions, my thoughts and aesthetic preferences. It is a self-absorbed, individual and personal process, yet I am conscious that my experiences and reactions are communal.

One series of paintings celebrates the music of my favourite classical composers, blues, world music, opera or other favourites. Other work arises from a word, a poem, the memory of a stained glass window, a flower, a hot summer day.  My experience of disease, of a deteriorating environment, my reactions to reports of war, famine and homelessness mingle with the joy of a baby’s birth and the experience of love.

In my paintings I initially give free reign to emotion and intuition. Next, I contemplate and select colour and make other deliberate choices to achieve balance and interest.  Abstracted and non-representational imagery are my choice for expressing  the universality of human experience.  I invite the viewer to use their imagination to feel free to interpret and thereby claim the work.

My three dimensional works typically embrace the human form, set in ambiguous poses and environments.  I aim to imply, but not impose a narrative, letting the viewer construct their own story.

I create sculptures using a range of repurposed and found materials and paint on wood or canvas using molding paste, paper maché and other mixed media materials, employing a variety of traditional processes.

Among the many formal influences on my work, the modernists rank high.  Artists like Hans Hoffman, Joan Miro and Paul Klee, the colour field painters who first used acrylic paints,  the work of Hundertwasser, the architecture of Antoni Gaudi, the surreal landscapes of Max Ernst,  and Marc Chagall’s stained glass windows provide essential elements to my visual landscapes.I admire post-modern diversity and seek to integrate new material and forms in my work.

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