ALISON McKENNA

VIEWING ROOM

“Landscape painting has a particular poignancy when nature is on the point of collapse, either because of greedy developers, chemical fertilisers, threat of war or climate change - all of which are now interlinked. So while we are in this transition to renewable energy sources and are aiming to reduce carbon pollution, the natural world continues to manifests its beauty and power, and in these paintings I have tried to capture that.”

Hill And Sky 2021

Enamel and pencil on hardboard, 145 x 105cm.

Many Coloured Land 2021

Enamel and pencil on hardboard, 145 x 105cm.

White Mountain 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 110 x 170cm.

The Village Of Resistance 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 170 x 110cm.

Before Delphi 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 170 x 110cm.

Sacred Land, 2021

Oil on Arches paper, 56 x 76cm.

Yulia, 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 145 x 105cm

Upwards, 2021

Enamel on hardboard, 147 x 105cm

Hill Form with Pink Blue and Red, 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 105 x 145cm

Peace Camp 2021

Enamel and acrylic on Arches paper, 57 x 77cm.

Green Gate 2021

Enamel and acrylic on Arches paper, 57 x 77cm.

Sugar Diamond 2021

Enamel and acrylic on Arches paper, 57 x 77cm.

Yellow Sky, 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 105 x 145cm

Where Things Meet, 2022

Enamel on hardboard, 105 x 145cm

Megalith, 2021

Enamel and pencil on birch plywood, 105 x 145cm.

Moving Through The Asteroid, 2021

Oil on Arches paper, 56 x 76cm.

Gold Mountain, 2021

Oil on Arches paper, 56 x 76cm.

Landing Strip, 2021

Enamel on paper, 100 x 140cm.

Sun Force, 2019

Acrylic and Gouache on paper

30 x 42cm

Untitled, 2018

Acrylic on paper

70 x 100cm

Untitled, 2018

Acrylic on paper, 100 x 140cm

 

Common Land Photo Series

Common Land 2021

“A series of photographs taken in April and Dec 2021 on visits to various sites, including Greenham common nature reserve (formally Greenham Common USAF Air Base and the site of a 19 year long peace protest by women against nuclear armaments), and the neolithic monuments of Avebury and Silbury Hill in Wiltshire at the dawn of the Winter Solstice. By decorating the black and white images with inks and colour washes, I aim to reveal the ‘energetics of place’, that in many instances have restricted access (not least to a woman in the possibly hostile environment of open countryside) or have been disrupted by roadways. Greenham Common is in an active phase of healing, but it will take a long time to lift the spirits from the weight of the past.” Alison McKenna, 2022

 
 

ALISON McKENNA

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