Alison Sayers

Education
2022-23: BA Fine Art (First Year) Teesside University, Middlesbrough.
2021-22: Access to HE in Art and Design, Northern School of Art, Newport Road, Middlesbrough.
2000–2015: short courses at UAL and City Lit (drawing, ceramics); etching in Edinburgh & London Print Studio.
1991–1993: MBA at London Business School.
1979–1982: BA Hons English and American Literature, UEA, Norwich.

Artists’ Statement
Alison is a painter who uses paper, canvas, plaster and clay as surfaces for mark-making. Her preferred medium is oil paint because she loves its rich depth of colour and the way in which paint and surface meet to create a third material.
Her work engages with the fundamental variables: mark-making, colour, shape, line, contrast, rhythm.  She experiments with these to offer up areas of focus and vitality and areas of rest that create a coherent whole image with its own life. She leaves space in her work in which a viewer can find something of interest which prompts them to look again, perhaps to remember or to dream.
Her work is not representational, but a matter of landscapes internal and external, abstracted through sensation, feeling and experience. She starts by drawing from observation and sees which shapes and colours call for more exploration, more space. She is inspired by everyday objects, lines in the landscape, colour palettes, images in magazines.