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Alison Atkins
(Shreveport, Louisiana, )
Raised in a rural area in north Louisiana near Natchitoches, Alison Atkins learned how to watercolor from her grandmother who attended Newcomb College, and her interest in the art was nurtured from a young age. In 1981 she earned a BFA in painting working with Pat Trivigno in the Newcomb Art Department at Tulane University before moving to Europe and continuing her studies in Fiesole, Italy through Dominican University, earning a masters from 1982-84.
In recounting her artistic development, Atkins recalls the inspiration of El Greco while visiting del Prado as a child, and then in later years responding to the works of German expressionists such as Kathe Kollwitz who spoke truth to power and captured raw emotion, as well as relating to the Post-Impressionist’s love of nature. In 1995 in the wake of her husband’s death to suicide, she started a journal and began writing letters to Juliette, her daughter, to process the grief. A short film on this topic is presently in production with scenes shot in Paris and Miami, where the artist is presently based.
