Alice Newman is a contemporary landscape artist working with mixed media, combining elements of collage, acrylic, oils, pastels and watercolour. Working en plein air all over Scotland, she creates artworks that convey a strong sense of place and celebrate colour and experimental mark making. Whether it be a vast empty sea scape or a busy city scene, there is nothing Alice loves more than being out in the landscape recording it, experiencing the elements first hand. Being immersed in nature gives Alice’s work energy - hearing the wind roaring and the waves crashing, or the buzz of city streets. For Alice painting is a full body, completely absorbing experience, where all the senses are attuned to the environment. Capturing the joy of being out in the landscape and putting that to paper so she can share it with others is what drives Alice to create. Recording the fleeting light and the change of the seasons is an ever evolving and constantly challenging subject which motivates Alice to paint on a daily basis.

Alice was born in 1991 and grew up north of Glasgow. She trained as an illustrator at Duncan of Jordanstone in Dundee. After a few years working as a freelance illustrator her practice began to evolve a looser, more artistic approach, and she now works full time as an artist from her home studio in Dunfermline, regularly travelling throughout Scotland to create her artworks.