Alice Silver

London Born Artist Alice Cherry resides in Melbourne, Australia.

Alice is fascinated with the relationship between colour, light, reflection and water. She is inspired by childhood memories, nostalgia for the familiar and learning and growing as an adult. Water is the interchanging theme in every painting.

In her work, Alice enjoys creating emotion and stimulating the senses, challenging herself to explore the ‘beyond’. She identifies the sea in its paradox; unpredictable, vast, complex and wild, yet calming, beautifully authentic, intoxicating and full of wonder. She explores how water and reflection distort and change our perceptions, she sees colour in everything and paints to this with no bounds. She wants her audience to be drawn into an abstract world, look beyond the obvious and join her in seeing that anything is possible.

Alice is a self-taught artist who started painting with brushes. Through developing her water series and experimenting with different textures, she now favours the palette knife. Alice works with high quality oil, acrylics and mixed media.

Alice works out of her studio in Cheltenham and after a day spent there, she nearly has as much paint in her hair, on her face and on the floor as she does on her ...