Details

First Name	Alison
Last Name	Durbin
Username	alisondurbin
Website	http://www.wildwood-arts.uk
Region	Highlands
Disciplines	Painting, Printmaking
Themes	Abstract, Botanical, Environment, Landscape

Statement

I’m a visual artist working in printmaking, mixed media and digital art. I make layered artworks that incorporate natural, found and repurposed materials. I’m fascinated by the details and changes in the natural world that I observe on my daily walks around my home in Moidart, on the West Coast of Scotland. I’m a beekeeper and forest gardener, and the rhythms of nature and outdoor wellbeing are fundamental to my creative practice. Gathered textures such as seaweed, sand, plant fibres and beeswax find their way into my print plates and mixed media pieces. My aim is to create soothing and absorbing artworks that allude to the lines and patterns found within and around us.

Biography

Alison Durbin is a visual artist, born in England and living on the West Coast of Scotland since 2010. She graduated in 1991 with a first class honours degree in Art from the University of Reading, after which she worked with an arts collective to establish and run the Rising Sun Arts Centre and Gallery 28 in Reading. She worked for over 25 years as an independent community artist and forest school leader, running creative workshops and socially engaged art projects that nurture and celebrate the connection between people and the environment. She hosts an artist’s hideaway and thinking space at her home, which can be booked for self-directed creative residencies. Her artwork has been exhibited at Resipole Studios, Moray Arts Centre and An Talla Solais Ullapool.