ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alison Best is an artist who has worked in business and
industry and has a MBA from the Open University.
Originally trained as an artist, Alison has spent her
working life in industry, and from 1987 worked in the
business support and economic development and regeneration
sector in the North East of England.
Although illness ended her career as a manager in the
public sector Alisons deep love of nature and the early
art training has helped her rebuild her life.
Initially, Alison’s return to drawing and painting
flowers and plants began as therapy but it has now developed
into a full time career as artist and designer. She lives
in County Durham with her husband Anthony and son Alex.
She is helped and supported in her art work by her friend
Patricia Kinsella.
Alison is a trained artist with a BA Hons in Fine Art.
She began her studies in Manchester where she did a preDiploma
Foundation course followed by study at Leeds University
and finally Newcastle Polytechnic where she was delighted
to achieve a BA Honours degree in Fine Art in 1979. Her
dissertation was on Thomas Bewick.
Alison classes herself as a multi-media artist and uses
a variety of media to express her interest in the natural
world. Currently she is working with oil, enamel, watercolours,
designer gouache and industrial paints, digital photography,
pastels, inks, resins, varnishes and clay.
However Alison is keen to develop the use of other media
in her work, and she has recently trained in stained glass
and copperwork glass with the international glass artist
Marilyn OKeefe.
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