Bio.
I have been a painter all my life and am deeply inspired by nature, mysticism, spirituality, mountains and primal landscapes. I sell my work online and in galleries and art fairs. My travels to Andalucia in Southern Spain and the Greek islands are great inspirations to my art, and I make regular trips there. I have a B.A. Hons in Fine Art and have regularly taught art, as well as English as a foreign language. I prefer to see myself as an art facilitator, rather than teacher, gently guiding you and drawing out your innate creative ability and passion.
I was born in Norfolk UK, to artistic parents. My father an architect and my mother a teacher. Both were great musicians, and musical ability has always been a part of our lives, and my children’s too. When I was a child, we lived in the Blue Mountains in Australia. I was a free-range child, the eldest of four, and explored creeks and wild bush land. These primal landscapes and mountains shaped and formed me. It gave me true wanderlust which has remained with me all my life. We moved around a lot as a family, my parents both very much nomadic by nature and after Australia I grew up for the most part in East Sussex, until I flew the nest to do my own wandering.
I studied Fine Art and History of Art/Critical Theory at Bath Academy of Art, (now Bath Spa university) and received my B.A. Hons there.
Always an explorer and dreamer, I have lived and worked in different countries, including southern France, the Cote d’Azur, and Los Angeles, where I worked as a set painter, muralist and specialist decorator in the nineties before having children. Now a mother of two, (my daughter is a graduate of Goldsmiths University and my son is a teenager,) my passion for mountains is satiated by regular painting trips to the mountains of Andalucia. I am interested in pattern, decoration and ornament, combined with notions of the sacred and spiritual, and Goddess archetypes. I like to combine the intricate elements I see and feel in nature, such as cellular structure, fractals, sacred geometry, ancient manuscripts, religious iconography, and craft traditions such as lace-making in my art practice. I see painting as my meditation, both in the physical act of painting and the feeling that my work evokes when looking at the finished piece. It is my intention to evoke a feeling of meditative contemplation. My work is all about imagination and dreams, and is seldom purely representational. I love the idea of creating our own reality, in art as in life. It is my intention, in my work and my world, to create a utopia, or a feeling of a paradise. In the process of creation I create a world. I am a dream-weaver. I seek to convey serenity, equanimity and light. I see the painting as the Prayer. At the moment my love of trees, dreams, images of the Divine Feminine and birds are my passion and the pattern I use is the metaphor for the quantum particles within everything, and our shape and form within the infinite. As above, so below. Sometimes surreal in quality, my interests in secular spirituality, quantum physics and metaphysics are I hope, reflected in my paintings.
As a muralist and set painter, some of my clients were: Shakespeare's Birthplace in Stratford upon Avon, where I worked with a team painting medieval wall-mounted cloth murals in original pigments, Pelham Hall, Burwash, E. Sussex, Olympia Antiques Fair, London, the Sultan of Oman, London, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas, where I worked with a team painting all the faux marble in Caesar's Forum, a large shopping mall, based on a Roman town. Shop fronts included Louis Vuitton, Bernini, Gucci, Versace, Spago's and many more. My work included murals and specialist decoration in homes, restaurants and shops in London, France, Los Angeles and Las Vegas. I also occasionally painted sets for television and commercials.
Other passions in my life are languages, walking/hiking and music.
My focus is very much about the transformative power that creativity and making art produces. I often work alongside other artists to create my art retreats in Spain. The healing effects of working from the imagination, group work, with people creating alongside one another and interacting in the studio cannot be underestimated. We combine arts such as movement, storytelling, and music with painting and drawing.
CV
Art workshop leader and art teacher for ArtsonPrescription.org and Artinthepark 2021-22
Painting workshop leader and art exhibitor for Treesforcities.org at the De La Warr Pavilion October 2022
Online art teacher for artsonprescription.org through GP referrrals. 2020 - 2022
Muralist, paint finisher, specialist decorator, scenic painter in Los Angeles: various homes, shops, restaurants, educational establishments.
Faux finisher, Caesar’s Forum, Caesar’s Palace, Las Vegas. Painted the entire Caesar’s Forum, based on a Roman town, with a team in faux marble. Shop fronts, columns, pillars, architectural features, fountains etc: Versace, Louis Vuitton, Bernini, Spago’s, Warner Bros.
Scenic painter for film and television, music videos.
Painter of medieval wall murals, in original pigments for Shakespeare’s birthplace, Stratford Upon Avon, UK.
Muralist / specialist decorator, Cannes and Juan les Pins, France.
Muralist/specialist decorator in London. Clients included the Sultan of Oman.
Paintings for dermatologists, Zum Delfin Dermatologie in Switzerland: https://www.dermadelfin.ch/artikel/alice-mason-art
For a selection of photos, see Murals/Paint Finishes.
Some recent publications and illustrations:
Illustrations for French magazine, to be released September 2021. Rève des Femmes. Rêv'elles
https://revedefemmes.fr/
Illustration for a book cover by Brazilian author Edson Lodi about women's experiences with Ayahuasca.
União do Vegetal https://udv.org.br
Artwork for breathwork website in Switzerland: www.dragonflybreath.com
Book cover for Eu Vi A Lua, by Brazilian Author Edson Lodi, about women’s esperiences with Ayahuasca, the sacred plant medicine. 2022.
Cover and editorial illustrations for Reve de Femmes, (Sorcieres Vertes, Douce Puissance Feminine.) 2022
I have recently completed a series of illustrations for a children's book by Canadian author. Details soon.
Album cover ‘Laterna Magica’ by Harald Petersrstorfer. Guitars and guitar harp.
Book cover for poetry book 'Don't You Dare Teach my Daughter to Fear the Forest' by TY Chambers. A collection of poetry of empowerment for women.
https://publishizer.com/dont-you-dare-teach-my-daughter-to-fear-the-forest-2/
Exhibition with Viriditas at Women of the World Festival, South Bank Centre, London, February 2017
Book cover art work for 'Jump into the Blue' by Christina Lavers www.jumpintotheblue.com
I have also just been published in French diary published by Reve des Femmes, called Rev' Elles, Agenda Lunaire 2017 and 2018.
www.revedefemmes.net/pages/catalogue.php?famille=Agendas
Another publication with my art work is the deck of Soulful Woman guidance cards.
http://www.blueangelonline.com/soulful_woman_cards.html
One of my paintings "Queen Schererazade 1001 Nights" was used for the publicity of a symposium "Culture and Resilience" that took place in February 2017 by GGzE in Eindhoven (Netherlands). This symposium was about psychiatric and mental care to refugees and to people who have grown up in different cultures.
My work is often used, with my permission, to a cause which I am passionate about: Treesisters Women Seeding Change: 'TreeSisters is a global network of women who donate monthly to fund the restoration of our tropical forests as a collective expression of planetary care. As a feminine leadership and tropical reforestation organisation, we exist to call forth the brilliance and generosity of women everywhere and channel it towards the trees. Our goal is to make it as normal for everyone to give back to nature as it currently is to take nature for granted.'
Art work and illustrations for martial arts film 'Spirit2Power'
Murals and backdrops for numerous clients worldwide, including Shakespeare's Birthplace, Stratford Upon Avon. I worked with a small team, painting medieval cloth designs in original pigments for the walls of the whole house of Shakespeare's birthplace.
Faux marble painting for pillars, architectural features and plinths for the whole of Caesar's Forum, Caesar's Palace, Las Vegas. Shop fronts included Versace, Gucci, Bernini, Louis Vuitton, Spago's, Warner Bros and many more.
Scenic and set painter in Los Angeles film industry and music videos.
Olympia Antiques Fair, London.
Murals and specialist decoration for numerous homes, restaurants, hotels etc. in France, London, Los Angeles, Las Vegas and Sussex, UK. Prestigious clients including the Sultan of Oman.
Group art shows with the Artist’s Network Alpujarra, (ANA) Ayuntamiento de Orgiva, Granada, Spain) 2018 and 2019.
Solo Art show, Theatre Royal, Bath,
Group shows, East Sussex Contemporary Art Fair.
Group shows, 'Pure Arts Fair' Battle, East Sussex.
Rye Arts and Crafts fair Organiser, (twice monthly, four years) Rye, East Sussex
Art retreat teacher and organiser, annually at Cortijo Las Salinas, Spain.
For full CV please ask me.