Aliisa Hyslop

ALIISA HYSLOP was born in 1957 of Finnish / Scottish parentage. She studied at art school in Portsmouth, obtaining a BA Hons in Fine Art (Drawing and Painting) in 1981. Since then she has lived and worked in Edinburgh, developing her own unique style of figurative painting. She does not use models; her inspiration is her imagination and experience. She paints "a world somewhere between reality and imagination." Her figures are always large but Aliisa does not see them as fat. "I draw and paint intuitively, and I like large shapes and curves. I think perhaps it is because these images are about the soul, which is immense and boundless." She is a regular exhibitor at Tolquhon whose work always delights. Her paintings touch people with their particular mix of joy and melancholy. Feelings, moods and emotions are portrayed in poetic imagery, and in a dream-like way, are visual expressions of a deeper experience.