About AliceE
AliceE is a fine artist specializing in water-based media and collage, with extensive experience creating portraits of pets and people. Painting has been a soul-soothing passion since childhood and she has been developing her illustration and portrait style for the last ten years.
Artist Biography
Alice E Guinther was born in Boston MA, and grew up in Kutztown PA. She spent many hours drawing with pencils and charcoal, painting with pans of watercolors, and doodling with pens and crayons. She had the great gift of an amazing high school art teacher who encouraged her students to experiment with all types of media—from clay to screen printing, pastels, oils and acrylics. Alice was given an excellent introduction to oil painting and acrylics.
Alice also attended workshops from Kutztown University’s art department. Her current style of realism is built on what she learned while illustrating a book for a friend. She took her very realistic watercolor style and began painting friend’s pets and children—some for commission, some as gifts. There is an illustrated storybook in process and artwork for shows in the future.
From the Artist
I have been painting since childhood with amazing guides along the way. My teachers encouraged me to explore various art forms from jewelry construction to screen printing, and of course painting—including oils, acrylics and watercolors. I have been working in water-based mediums over the last 10 years with one show and an illustrated book to my credit.
Color and light are important in my work—I am in love with the dance of sunlight across and through a flower petal or representing dust motes drifting across a sunbeam. I use contrasting colors and chiaroscuro to guide the eye and bring more drama to my work.
My idea is to channel the vision I get onto the canvas. I like to explore the form, whether flower, plant, person or animal, and ask the art what it wants to be? What is it trying to teach me?
I consider myself to be a realists and idealists, with a goal to represent the soul of the subject. Currently, I have been experimenting with both collage and mix media while working through some therapeutic subjects on both feminist thought and the why of isolation.
My objective is to allow the artistic magic to flow through me and on to the canvas or paper, to catch a glimpse of the artistic archetype.
