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My work is shaped by my life, my experiences - and the bridge that links my life and my work is my visual diary. It came to life after my children were born - I'd lost the link between work and life and I needed to find a way to resolve the inherent conflict between motherhood and painting. The diary quickly became central to my work. It is intimate, private and uncensored, and travels with me wherever I go. Having a diary invites possibility, and it’s this possibility and openess to re-intepretation – once an image has escaped the confines of the diary – that excites and beguiles me. I feel that my work is suggesting a different, more vicarious view of life – one in which the fragility of the everyday is exposed. It's a way of giving voice when I would normally be silent or guarded. It is, in a sense, holding a mirror up to life and studying its reflection.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
