Artist Statement

I love making collages because it allows me to use papers that would otherwise be thrown out, like the inside of tea boxes, the covers of a Kleenex box, and even some wrappings on toilet paper. Being engaged in the process of making collages leads me to look at my surroundings and the environment differently – anything can be source material. 

In addition to available sources of paper – including magazines, newspapers, old art books – I find making my own resource papers the most satisfying. I have learned to make paper from plant pulp, stomping on the pulp in water and then incorporating inclusions, such as leaves and twigs. I also paint my own resource papers and embellish them using stencils, stamps, and markers. 

I love the process of discovery that happens when I put one piece of paper next to another, and have the materials speak to me, leading me to choose the next piece of paper to incorporate as the piece evolves. 

Making collage art is a lot of fun most of the time.

Biography

Alice has been studying and making collages since 2020. Before that, her main artistic pursuit was jewelry fabrication. For 18 years, she worked and studied in a studio in San Miguel, Mexico, every weekday three months a year. Her husband’s health issues made it difficult to be in San Miguel in the winters, so the couple moved their winter base to Sarasota, Florida, for the medical care, weather, and great cultural opportunities.

Alice decided to switch from making jewelry to collage-making, partly because of it’s forgiving nature and focus on colors and shapes and their inter-relationships. She has taken workshops at the Women’s Studio Workshop (Rosendale, New York),  Snow Farm (Northampton, MA), with Lynne Perella (Interlaken, NY), Jill Krasner (Sarasota, FL), Liz Cole (Sarasota, FL); and with David Hornung, James Ransome, Robert Ohnigian, and Jenne Currie at the Woodstock School of Art (Woodstock, NY).

She continues to take a studio class with Jenne Currie weekly while in Woodstock, NY.

Her work has been shown at local galleries, including Pinkwater Gallery, Woodstock School of Art, and WAAM in the Hudson Valley, and at the Sarasota Art Center and Women’s Contemporary Art exhibits in Florida. She has also had two solo shows.

Alice is currently co-chair at the Pelican Cove Art Club in Sarasota, where she live for 5 months a year. Her responsibilities include managing a large group show and 3 solo shows every season, securing speakers on art-related topics for monthly meetings, overseeing art classes, and developing new initiatives.

Alice outside of her art studio in Woodstock, NY