Alison Gargett Artist

My Story

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I am a self-taught artist living in Durham City in the North East of England.

Recently I have concentrated full time on my work taking my inspiration from vivid and vibrant colours and how they compliment and mix to create a visual experience. This theme is applied to my abstract work along with my general and floral subjects. I usually work in acrylics, with added mixed media but I like to use household paints to enhance texture, although I also use oils at times and various mixes of both.

The creation of my art is very much a physical experience. I work intensely over a prolonged period of time until I am happy with stage one of my work. After that I consider the work looking at it over and over until I decide either to add more paint or consider the painting finished. I use splashes, flicks and drips and I rarely use a paintbrush preferring palette knives, and screwdrivers, scrapers and anything else that may come to hand during painting. I hope the physicality of the painting enhances the viewers’ visible potential by offering ways of creating a sensory experience. Other work is less physical but still using vibrant colours and sweeping shapes to add to the experience.

My floral work is a subject, which exudes the use of colour, movement, sensory stimulation, changes in light and changes in seasonal variations, however, I tend to favour abstract expressionist work.

Preferably I like to produce work on large canvases as this offers more scope for physicality.

My piece ‘Let There Be Light’ won the AbEx16 national competition, which was judged by the curator of the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition and was shown at an exhibition in Islington.

I have held a solo exhibition at the Town Hall in Durham and show my work regularly at exhibitions at the No. 42 Gallery in Bishop Auckland. I am also showing up to 6 paintings at an exhibition due to take place at Burgh House in Hampstead, London at the end of August 2017.

My latest exhibition is a solo being held at Greenfields Arts Centre, Greenfields Way, Newton Aycliffe. On until 31st October Monday to Thursday 10 till 9pm and 10 till 6pm Fridays.