Alison Philp

My art practice is mainly focused on drawing using close observation of the natural world as inspiration and a guide. When I am home in North East Fife I draw from the endlessly cyclical nature of the garden; the plants and processes which often serve as metaphors, and as teachers, for how we live. When I go to the West Coast, where I grew up, I draw from the vast expansive landscape and grapple with ideas of ineffability and notions of the sublime.
I like to work with the material of paper, as a surface to draw on, to make artist books out of, or to make plant-inspired cut-outs and simple sculptural works.
I am working as an artist within local community lifelong education projects. I teach practical and exploratory visual art workshops emphasising looking at and engaging with aspects of the local natural environment.