ALICE SHERIDAN : THE ESSENCE

14th September - 1st November 2024
This autumn we are pleased to present The Essence, a new collection by respected British painter Alice Sheridan. Alice’s paintings explore landscape through the lens of abstraction, by distilling essential visual elements down to a simplified language of colour, and articulating the vitality of the natural world through layers of glowing colour and the expressive potential of the painted mark.

“I have always been interested in the balance of chaos and control, and painting gives me a way to embrace both of these states: a necessary loosening up and a considered adjustment and refinement. When I draw in open space, I am responding to the movement of the air and the sounds as much as the things I see. I am trying to capture the essence - a deep need and sense to be recognised in an expansive world. Recently I have been working with fluid layers, which need a physicality to make expressive marks and sometime gentle coaxing. It is a slow and contemplative process which involves listening to the paint for the moment when there is a distinctive element or sense of place. It can be a movement of water or overlapping memories. In this group of works, I am looking to distil the elements even more, finding that sense of arrival that completes each painting”. Alice Sheridan 2024

 

First taught by Robin Child, the acclaimed artist and former Head of Art of Marlborough College, Alice graduated with a BA Hons in Graphic Design from Nottingham Trent University and then worked in a number of London design studios. Her graphic design background is evident in the structure and balance of her beautiful paintings. Alice has been selected for Discerning Eye at London’s Mall Galleries, and for the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, and has exhibited at The Society of Women Artists. She is also widely known as the co-host of the Art Juice podcast, which has so far achieved over 4.4million downloads, and as the founder of membership club The Connected Artist, which helps working artists build a sustaining creative practice.

 

Also on show are ceramics by artists Lucy Burley, Tessa Wolfe Murray, Yvette Glaze, Sue Mundy, Sarah Dunstan, Tiffany Scull and a collection of handcrafted organic jewellery by Lucy Spink and Hannah Duncan. Rhian Wyman's will also be showing her beautiful woven textiles.