Focus on...: Alison Cowan

  • Alison Cowan Solo Exhibition
    About the Artist

    Alison is well-known for her use of bold colour and heavy texture, creating paintings that are bright, dramatic and always command the attention from anyone.

    If you’re looking for a real splash of colour on your walls and a style quite different to the majority of other painters, this is the perfect exhibition for you.

  • Alison studied at the Glasgow School of art and is now a full time artist. For many years she worked from a studio in the West End of Glasgow, though due to the demand for her work increasing she moved further out and now works from a studio in Uddingston with far more additional space.

    Alison paints of range of subjects in her iconic semi-abstract impasto style. She says that her paintings, ‘are generally not representative of specific locations and tend to be a mixture of elements that I feel work well together. I am more interested in how to use bold colour, composition and heavy texture to create dramatic images.  I try to capture a sense of depth and atmosphere through the use very thick paint, vibrant, contrasting colours, light and shade. I rarely use brushes, preferring the use of palette knives to apply thickened paint in stages, building up the structure and texture over a period of time’. 

    Alison’s work has been exhibited widely both locally and nationally.

  • "My paintings are generally not representative of specific locations and tend to be a mixture of elements that I feel work well together. I am more interested in how to use bold colour, composition and heavy texture to create dramatic images.  I try to capture a sense of depth and atmosphere through the use very thick paint, vibrant, contrasting colours, light and shade. I rarely use brushes, preferring the use of palette knives to apply thickened paint in stages, building up the structure and texture over a period of time".
    - Alison Cowan
  • Selected Works