Alice is a glass artist specialising in painted mirrors. These are painted with acrylics in a variety of styles, mostly abstract with some inspiration from nature. Her pieces reflect art deco designs and the stained glass windows and doors found in Bristol, where Alice lived for 15 years. Other influences include Charles Rennie Mackintosh and Piet Mondrian. Her work uses bright colours shaded to catch the light, and she has a great love for triangles.
Alice started painting glass after finding some glass mirror tiles in a skip in Bristol about twenty years ago. “Unable to leave anything of possible use sitting in a skip, I hoiked them out and headed to the local art store for some paint. After a little trial and error I produced my first three pieces, one of which was quickly broken by a good friend. My process involves marking out mirrors with a chinograph pencil, adding bold lines in acrylic liner and filling them with colour. Each piece is unique, but similar pieces can be commissioned.”
After spending the last decade as a writer in the United States, Alice now paints from her home in Cumnor, Oxfordshire. She is exhibiting for the first time at The Workshop on Cowley Road during Oxford Art Weeks on May 3,4,5,6,9,10 and 11.
Alice also creates fabric and wire art, including flowers and fairy wings, and various sculptures. Find more at www.alicewilkes.us.
Alice Wilkes Art 