Alanna Eakin

Alanna Eakin (b.1988) is an emerging British painter currently living and working in London. She graduated in 2010 with a BA in Fine Art at Central Saint Martin’s London. Alanna has exhibited in gallery exhibitions and art fairs in London and nationwide.

Alanna's work is concerned with themes of nature, escapism and nostalgia. She has a particular interest in colour, light and abstract mark making. The paintings are moments in time with stories attached allowing the viewer to place themselves within and enabling them to form a connection.

She collects references from the everyday, from travels to exotic places and through memories both present and in childhood. Imagination, memory and imagery allow her to translate a dreamlike, fairytale scenario onto the surface, playing with colour, light and dimensions.

The paintings themselves are planned out in terms of colour and composition with the process often inspiring a completely disparate conclusion. Alanna follows her own set of rules. Using surprising colour palettes and saturated hues, they are made up of layers of materials with particular attention paid in the initial stages to the unpredictable nature of abstract mark-making, using the paint to inform each decision often in a...

Central Saint Martins, London, UK, Foundation Degree, 2007
Central Saint Martins, London, UK, BA Fine Art, 2010

OCT 15th - 19th
Affordable Art Fair, Bleach Box Gallery, Evolution London


SEP 26th - OCT 27th
Solo Show, Glasshouse Contemporary, Hackney, London


AUGUST 1st- 24th
'Rituals', Group Show, Glasshouse Contemporary, Hackney, London