Biography
Alison Martinenq is from Scotland and attended evening classes at the Edinburgh School of Art during her student years. She now lives in the south of France.
Essentially self-taught, she took part in workshops led by the American painter Charlotte Novitz and started painting full-time in 2010 after a career in teaching. She is interested in exploring the way the artist, abandoning a literal representation of reality relies on memory and imagination. Since 2021 she has been researching a new technique, cold wax painting: oil paint and /or pigments mixed with a cold wax medium. She has exhibited regularly in France since 2013 and belongs to the artists' collective Espace361° based in Aix-en-Provence.
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