Alison Shepard

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As a tiny child, I fell in love with drawing before I knew how to write or spell.    

From an early age, I had an affinity for narrative, and used to create characters and stories as I drew.  Ever since I can remember, my work has been ethereal and dream-like.   

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As I create, I feel as though I am telling visual stories about this world and another beyond it.   Whether my subject is a face, a figure, a flower, or a landscape, there is always a sense of poetic realism in my work that speaks to the invisible realm behind what we see with our eyes.  

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My interest in exploring a variety of subject matter is similar to a director who explores various genres of film.  Each body of work is like a movie, and each painting a frame or a scene to explore narratives that I find captivating.