Alan Ibell

Alan Ibell is a contemporary artist and painter. Born 1983 in Ōtautahi Christchurch, he lives in Te Whanganui-a-Tara, Wellington.

Alan's painting practice explores narrative and figuration alongside the uncanny and the Antipodean Gothic. Borrowing imagery from dreams, memories, personal anxieties and existential musings, Alan creates visual allegories of a perilous paradise that is tranquil, inescapable, and disjointed. Subtly citing frescoes by painters of the early Renaissance, Giotto, Fra Angelico, and Piero della Francesca, the soft and delicately rendered texture of his paintings feels as if it has been mixed deep into plaster. His use of dislocation and non-linear perspective suggests a fragmented narrative, a question of consciousness.

Visually, Alan leaves us a great deal of time with our own thoughts. His pared back paintings and sparsely populated landscapes convey psychologically charged