Alison Dunhill trained in Fine Art at Reading University under Sir Terry Frost. Primarily a landscape artist, she has exhibited at many venues in London and in Norfolk, including the Beardsmore Gallery in London and the School House Gallery in Wighton; and has had solo exhibitions at, among others, the Piers Feetham Gallery, Gallery Forty-Seven and Hampstead Theatre Gallery in London and the Neptune Gallery in Hunstanton. Her work is in collections in Tokyo, Paris and Tuscany.

She has had studios in Florence, Andalucia, Provence and London; but it is the Norfolk landscape that has provided the inspiration for much of her work. She has had a home in Norfolk for the past 20 years, and many of her paintings have their genesis in the fields, woods and commons of the county. She now lives in King's Lynn.

Alison has an M.A. in Art History from the University of East Anglia, and is currently studying for her doctorate, on a modernist photographer, at the University of Essex. She has delivered gallery talks at the Douglas Hyde Gallery at Trinity College, Dublin, and at the Sainsbury Centre for Visual Arts in Norwich; and presented academic papers at recent conferences.

She is a published poet (for the first time at the age of 21), and has been a teacher of art, both in classroom and workshop settings. She has also organised and taught at residential painting workshops in Salthouse, Norfolk.

Alison's bold use of colour and texture generate a powerful visual impact that aims to stimulate and encourage the viewer's imagination. She uses colour not representationally, but to convey the emotional impact of the scene.

Colour and tone are highly contrasted in her work, bringing a vibrancy and vitality to her interpretation of landscape. She uses perspective to create a sense of space and depth, evidently delighting in the use of a repeated object such as a hay bale or a tumbleweed to delineate the space. Her fluidity of expression captures the dynamic movement within the landscape.

Alison Dunhill's landscape paintings in oil, oil pastel and watercolour are featured on this site, as well as a selection of her abstract work and other paintings and drawings.

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Since 2003 Alison Dunhill has held the ancient office of Custodian of King's Lynn's majestic South Gate. For many years this historic structure had rarely been open to the public until Alison initiated a visitors' programme which she operated single-handed for two summers, backed by the Borough Council. Thanks to her efforts and to the active involvement of a team of volunteers, South Gate is now open regularly to visitors for two days a week throughout the summer months.