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My work is concerned with emotion and thought, provoking if need be, in an attempt to understand the frailty of existence. The basis of my practice is shaped by my visual diary. I update it daily – a random, unpredictable record of the day’s events, left raw and unfinished. I embrace various materials and techniques including sculpture. I do not try to control or restrain my process of working. I have no desire for perfection or neatness. I prefer an unvarnished approach where things are allowed to develop. Apparent inaccuracies become embedded in the work much as they do in life. I cannot control emotions, they shift and vacillate and my work reflects the constant shift in my consciousness. If I have a pattern then it would be a desire to explore the rawer emotions, the ones we are afraid of and want to hide from. Inevitably they are noisier, more insistent, yet they are intriguing. Why do we indulge our dark sides with myths of fear and discontent? Why does loneliness betray us into deeds we can ponder over at length? I do not attempt to answer these questions anymore than any others that arise in my work, it is enough simply to engage with the chaotic fray of emotions of life.
"Alice Leach received a First Class degree from City & Guilds of London Art School in 1993, but only found the confidence to be a full-time painter in her late twenties. However, it wasn’t until she was forced to face the inherent conflict of being an artist and a single mother a few years ago, that she found her niche. Combining drawing, painting and the spoken word, she started a visual diary to which she has since added individual works of art depicting her most intimate, private and uncensored thoughts and feelings on an almost daily basis. Her life-long fascination with the basic, raw and immediate approach of Dubuffet, Cy Twombly and Canadian Inuit artists becomes evident in this tremendous and ever-growing body of work, which exposes the fragility of the everyday and inspires/suggests a different, more vicarious view of life. " Joy Collective