Alice Macdonald, River, 2024 (framed)
Distemper and scrim on canvas, 108 x 88cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting, presented in a slim frame made by the artist, is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ group exhibition and online collection. Fascinated by the tumultuous, ever-changing River Thames which runs near her Greenwich studio, the artist has begun to work from life on its banks on her way to the studio. She says; ‘I like how it looks different every day according to the light and the weather. The colours can be so different - often I write them down - tea brown, sky blue, gold, cold leet, grey, purple etc. As a moving body of water it’s impossible to draw, but I like how impossible it is’.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper and scrim on canvas, 108 x 88cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting, presented in a slim frame made by the artist, is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ group exhibition and online collection. Fascinated by the tumultuous, ever-changing River Thames which runs near her Greenwich studio, the artist has begun to work from life on its banks on her way to the studio. She says; ‘I like how it looks different every day according to the light and the weather. The colours can be so different - often I write them down - tea brown, sky blue, gold, cold leet, grey, purple etc. As a moving body of water it’s impossible to draw, but I like how impossible it is’.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Alice is based in south east London.
Distemper and scrim on canvas, 108 x 88cm
Alice Macdonald is an emerging, London-based artist whose diaristic paintings are informed by a broad range of sources spanning historical literature, myths, fairytales, memories, and friends and family painted from life. Fascinated by the complexities of human behaviour, emotion and relationships, she is attracted to the cinematic and the melodramatic, whether drawing scenes from classic films, or painting in the landscape.
This new painting, presented in a slim frame made by the artist, is part of our ‘Almost Blue’ group exhibition and online collection. Fascinated by the tumultuous, ever-changing River Thames which runs near her Greenwich studio, the artist has begun to work from life on its banks on her way to the studio. She says; ‘I like how it looks different every day according to the light and the weather. The colours can be so different - often I write them down - tea brown, sky blue, gold, cold leet, grey, purple etc. As a moving body of water it’s impossible to draw, but I like how impossible it is’.
Alice studied at Falmouth University (2011- 2014) followed by the Royal Drawing School (2016 - 2017). Since graduating, she has undertaken several artistic residencies in locations including Scotland, India and Italy. She has exhibited her work widely in the UK in group exhibitions including the Denton's Art Prize, London (2021) and the Summer Exhibition at the Royal Academy of Arts (2021, 2 and 3); a solo exhibition was presented in LKIF Gallery, Seoul, Korea in 2023. She was awarded the Great Art Prize, given at the National Original Print Exhibition, 2017, and the RWS Young Artist Award at the Royal Watercolour Society Open, Bankside Gallery, London. In September 2023 she graduated with an MA from City and Guilds of London Art School, winning the ASC Studio Residency Award. Oliver Projects has exhibited her work on several occasions including at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair in 2022 and 2023. Alice is based in south east London.
