‘From above’ by Alice Hartley

‘From above’
2022
Mono painting on archival paper
58 x 72cm
£875 Unframed
£1,225 Framed

Framing : Sapele wooden frame with window mount and antireflective glass
6 week lead time

‘Edge of Land’
12 new mono paintings by Alice Hartley

Presenting a new series of unique mono paintings created on reflection after our gallery visit to the edge of Cornwall. Inspired by Porthmeor beach, Barbara Hepworth’s garden and particularly the spectacular rocks of Gurnards Head in Zennor. We climbed down and down through fields and sundried paths in the hot August air to meet the cool Atlantic sea.

Hartley has found clarity and reassurance in the certainty of seeing land physically end and another body begin. There is haste in these works to witness, allow interior and exterior to collide and to see line in its literal form - the edge of the land is a boundary we must abide by.

Alice Hartley was born in 1988 in the South Downs where she grew up, she graduated from Kingston University in 2010 with a BA Hons in Illustration and from the RCA in 2013 with an MA in Fine Art Printmaking, she has since been selected for New Contemporaries, had residencies in Canada, New York and Athens. Hartley lives and works in South East London and continues to exhibit around the UK, Europe and North America. Hartley set out in printmaking, making large scale woodcuts, her work referenced dreams, familiar landscapes and with fragments of her own text.