NOEL MURPHY meets a Norlane artist conjuring whimsical characters with a dark edge.
THE PATTERNS are one of the first things that catch the eye.
Row and row of cuneiform shapes, teardrops, hatching, dot forms, squares hearts, scales, pyramids…
They’re little things, understated generally speaking, but the impact is powerful. Coupled with softer colour tones – unusual toffees and turquoises, maroons and soft pinks – and unexpected subject matter, they make for a distinctive otherworldly signature.
Which is just where Laura Alice is happy to have her art transport people; to a world of whimsy and fancy, play and serenity.
Alice embodies these elements in animistic fashion, breaking the boundaries between the human condition and other sentient beings, neatly blending the spiritual with the physical. It’s a kind of plumbing the soul.
Read on in the Geelong Coast Magazine – out now.
