‘As someone raised in England but born in Rajasthan, and as a student of art, I have often been surprised that an impressionist style hasn’t been the lens used by artists to view India. Instead, the studies have often been of the obvious and repetitive: endless chaotic scenes with painted elephants and cattle roaming the streets, or excessively ‘Bollywoodised’ images; in short, superficial studies of how India is different, rather than what she is.

Alice’s work is the first true study of India I have come across in my many years of looking for such art. The sincere affection she has for India is evident: there is a gentle kindness to her work such that it has a soft, cool breeze flowing through it, even where the scenes are showing the hustle of city life. She has wonderfully captured the pulse of India, and to have done that she could only have truly immersed herself in trying to feel India. One can hear her voice in the work, and only a true artist committed to a calling can achieve that.

With compassionately painted exotic landscapes, water, people and animals – Indian life itself – in a traditionally European style, she delivers a wonderful marriage of Western talent and Eastern subject. The Twain has met at her easel. I salute her for that, and am grateful for the sympathy and sincerity with which she has approached this work.’

Ashish Devi-King

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