MEET MEMBERS OF THE COLLECTIVE
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- Mar 25
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ARTISTS | INTRODUCING
ALY LLOYD AND MARY F HARRISON
This April we're meeting two truly unique artists in the collective. With practices different in every possible way from ideas to mediums, the thing that aligns these artists is their playful attitude towards their discipline and their distinctive takes on their practice as they push their boundaries.
ALY LLOYD
Aly Lloyd is a contemporary artist working from her Cotswold studio, examining the interplay between geometric abstraction and organic shapes, using the figure and themes of identity, human experience and femininity to challenge conventional boundaries in painting. Playing with the processes of digital image processing and the tactility of paint, she manipulates across mediums to create images with a fresh, bold style which pushes acrylic painting out of its traditional space.
Her works speak to life experiences, identity and memory while using abstraction to explore ideas over narratives. The resulting pieces connect with the viewers' sense of what it is to be living in the modern world, where we all live in a space occupied by both the real and the imagined, the physical and the digital.
Aly has been a finalist in multiple awards, exhibited nationally and featured in many publications. Her studio is open to appointments, and you can find out more about her practice, where to see her work and purchase her originals and prints over on her portfolio.
MARY F HARRISON
Mary Harrison is a multi-medium experimentally expressive artist currently working in drawing and watercolour, using her artwork to interpret life and connect with those around her.
She uses her practice to explore her own thoughts and imagination, instilling thoughtful narrative in her work and fostering conversation and connection with herself and the viewer.
Close to the heart of her practice is a relationship to the natural world and an emphasis on sustainability. This is felt viscerally through her pieces which are all comprised exclusively of local handmade organic watercolours, plant-based inks and handmade paper. Her fresh, contemporary approach to expressing her creativity sees her using watercolour in quite unconventional ways, creating works that are both hugely stylised and deeply unique; her painted drawings living delightfully in a space between mediums or categories.
Mary's lightness of touch and playful response to her mediums balance with heavy ideas to render a sincerely hopeful quality to her deeply personal explorations.
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