Artist Alison McKenna has made a new edition of ten small paintings based on a signature work, following her previous editions Village Of Resistance (2025) and Landing Strip (2024). These works are perfect entry points into McKenna’s painting practice.
Of this new edition, she says ‘My new series of paintings are made from plant studies from the sun washed stillness of (a friend) Alexandra’s garden in Crete. The works draw on the morphology of flowers—petal-like shapes, stems, organic curves— the flower as a metaphor for persistence, renewal, and fragility: beauty as an act of endurance. In a cultural landscape that often dismisses beauty as apolitical or feminine excess, its a refusal to cede softness, colour, or care to the margins of critical discourse. Joy itself becomes a mode of defiance; seeking beauty is an act of resistance, and colour, in its exuberance. Compositions emerge through processes of layering, revision and accidental colour patches and residues. Shapes are cut back to their essentials; colour is built in opaque, matte fields that retain the trace of the brush and the works exist in a state of becoming—unfinished.’
Each painting shows the subtle differences inherent in such an endeavour. The passages my align slightly differently or the pencil marks may trace a slightly different line. All are beautiful.
Alexandra’s Garden (Crete Series) 2025
Emulsion and pencil on 300 gsm 100% pure cotton Arches paper
Image size 21.5 x 16.2 cm
Paper size 26 x 18 cm
Edition of 10 hand painted
Price £150 each + p&p
All are signed, titled, dated and numbered on the front and all slightly differ.
Artist Alison McKenna has made a new edition of ten small paintings based on a signature work, following her previous editions Village Of Resistance (2025) and Landing Strip (2024). These works are perfect entry points into McKenna’s painting practice.
Of this new edition, she says ‘My new series of paintings are made from plant studies from the sun washed stillness of (a friend) Alexandra’s garden in Crete. The works draw on the morphology of flowers—petal-like shapes, stems, organic curves— the flower as a metaphor for persistence, renewal, and fragility: beauty as an act of endurance. In a cultural landscape that often dismisses beauty as apolitical or feminine excess, its a refusal to cede softness, colour, or care to the margins of critical discourse. Joy itself becomes a mode of defiance; seeking beauty is an act of resistance, and colour, in its exuberance. Compositions emerge through processes of layering, revision and accidental colour patches and residues. Shapes are cut back to their essentials; colour is built in opaque, matte fields that retain the trace of the brush and the works exist in a state of becoming—unfinished.’
Each painting shows the subtle differences inherent in such an endeavour. The passages my align slightly differently or the pencil marks may trace a slightly different line. All are beautiful.
Alexandra’s Garden (Crete Series) 2025
Emulsion and pencil on 300 gsm 100% pure cotton Arches paper
Image size 21.5 x 16.2 cm
Paper size 26 x 18 cm
Edition of 10 hand painted
Price £150 each + p&p
All are signed, titled, dated and numbered on the front and all slightly differ.
