Alison Englefield
On entering Beaumaris, pass the boatyard on your left, ahead is a very bright pink house. Just before this is Chapel Street. No 26 is the first small pink cottage on the left just after the small set of flats. Parking not available outside but on the road before Chapel street, or on the green.
For many years I have been exploring faces carved on C18th slate headstones – I have a collection of over 100 photos. Time obscures them with lichen and soil, they crumble and split, but enough remain to stare back through the centuries and fascinate me – my work uses layers, pasted on or pulled off; my canvasses record history embedded in the earth, as if covering or uncovering the past.
My work consists of large oils on canvas, charcoal, and pencil drawings. I feel very connected to things that are folding and dying as they contort and twist from their upright forms. Organic flowering and earthy colours, the work celebrates a fascination for the natural forms found in hedgerows and fields.