A colour lover with a keen eye for the delights to be found in the simple, imperfect moments of family life and rural living. Alice Tilley is an emerging still life and landscape painter working from her studio set amongst the sheds and sheep yards of her family farm near South Australia’s Barossa Valley.
It is Alice’s intention to embrace and document being present in the often quiet and ordinary moments of day-to-day domestic life, disregarding today’s culture of glorifying productivity and busyness. Alice’s art practice is largely informed by direct observations and experiences obtained through her environs and lifestyle including her garden, rural landscape, and family’s role as farmers and land custodians. Predominately a figurative oil painter, Alice’s artworks are characterised by an expressive play between light, shape and colour conveyed through lively brush strokes and mark making to build a rich, layered painterly surface.
Upon receiving a scholarship for outstanding secondary students at Adelaide Central School of Art Alice attended and completed a Certificate IV in Visual Art in 2000. Painting sporadically as she explored other creative outlets and career options, it was not until 2015 as a new stay-at-home Mum that Alice reignited her interest and a subsequent career as a painter. Alice is represented by galleries in SA and QLD regularly exhibiting in group and solo exhibitions.