Encounters - Alison Edmonds

14th February - 14th March

Opening 7:30pm Friday 13th February

Alison Edmonds is a Fine Artist with a studio situated in Bates Mill, close to Huddersfield town centre. She studied Fine Art at Psalter Lane, Sheffield. Working predominantly in oil paint on canvas she produces richly coloured paintings which are the contemplation of movement from one place to another and the possibility of what could happen in the space between.

Her work is generally a response to a chance encounter which could be minute or monumental in scale. Disparate things resonate for the artist. A figure in an old, faded photo, a single strand of cotton, an overheard snippet of conversation, a pile of gravel or the approach of a storm. These moments could be elemental events, instances of destruction and renewal, unexpected phenomena, fragmentary memories, soundbites from everyday life.

Repetition is a recurring element in the artists’ work. The Tablet series, twenty-five small square paintings has become an ever-expanding vocabulary which tries to capture and study these often-fleeting encounters through mark, colour, form and pattern. The artists Initial thoughts are often elusive and dissipate in the process of painting becoming obscured by layers of paint or erased transforming them into something new and unexpected.

The paintings flow from one work to the next pulling motifs through which metamorphize into alternative states and manifestations. The Artist chooses to stop every so often on the journey and explore elements on a more extensive scale in an attempt to make some sense of our position in the greater scheme of things but also, in no small way, just to see where the paint takes her.