Gallery Artists
Alison Cowan
Alison studied at the Glasgow School of art and is now a full time artist. For many years she worked from a studio in the West End of Glasgow, though due to the demand for her work increasing she moved further out and now works from a studio in Uddingston with far more additional space.
Alison paints of range of subjects in her iconic semi-abstract impasto style. She says that her paintings, ‘are generally not representative of specific locations and tend to be a mixture of elements that I feel work well together. I am more interested in how to use bold colour, composition and heavy texture to create dramatic images. I try to capture a sense of depth and atmosphere through the use very thick paint, vibrant, contrasting colours, light and shade. I rarely use brushes, preferring the use of palette knives to apply thickened paint in stages, building up the structure and texture over a period of time’.
Alison’s
work has been exhibited widely both locally and nationally.
