Alison Kruse / Flowers for You

Alison Kruse / Flowers for YouAlison Kruse is a Toronto based artist who attended Queens University Fine Art Program. Working in both photo collage and oil paint, her work explores the survivalist concept of Survive and Thrive in an attempt to better understand emotion and what it means to thrive. Alison works in photo collage illustrations and oil painting. Her work is inspired by the distinct characteristics that make a place unique and how they evoke emotion. In addition to her

It has been featured in CBC Arts

By working with a range of analog and digital processes including weaving

I often depict destinations in my work

colour-blocked tiles

visceral and intellectual levels

or entryway console table

environmentalism and storytelling

With its cheerful colors and unexpected arrangement of marks

The compositions are deliberately cropped

often incorporating subtle surreal elements and close

ignited by a recent visit to Italy that catapulted me back to the Renaissance

"My art is a manifestation of an unseen