Alison Granville's intricately detailed works have echoes of pointillism with viewers moving up close to see the exploded detail and stepping back to see the overall effect.
In her recent works tiny dabs, some forming daisy shapes, create jewel-like galaxies against variegated colour fields. Hazy effects suggestive of the celestial and larger 'islands' of colour further resonate with organic, cellular, and mystical associations.
The viewer is enticed by the luminous painstaking detail and intimacy of the works, and yet also by the paradoxical enormity they suggest.
Granville explores the stimulating possibilities of intricate detail, vivid colour relations and the repetition of motifs. Her inspirations include nostalgia for the small glass flowers of the millefiori she fell in love with as a girl, colourful 1970's fabric design, molecular forms, as well as aspects of the macrocosm or larger world: topography, maps, charts and galaxies.
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