Alison Bell’s ID – the mysterious but evocative “Beauty is within grasp” – gives a clue to her artistic sensibilities. John Donne said: “Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp." Alison’s photographic art is an orgy of passions about Scotland (and rightly so, it’s a beautiful land), architecture and a doze… Read more

Alison Bell’s ID – the mysterious but evocative “Beauty is within grasp” – gives a clue to her artistic sensibilities. John Donne said: “Art is the most passionate orgy within man's grasp." Alison’s photographic art is an orgy of passions about Scotland (and rightly so, it’s a beautiful land), architecture and a dozen other themes from the sublime to the mundane. Alison sees things that many of us don’t see. Few would notice beauty in an ordinary bench being gently stripped of its protective coloured coating. Yet Alison’s pictures give us new eyes to see such things with. Snow features in her work – that covering of white which both hides and reveals things. Alison uses this paradox to great effect. Signs also feature significantly. Alison is alert to signs of love in ordinary scenes which most people would miss. This ability to see and capture so well the ordinary and the fabulous is precisely why we need photographers of Alison’s calibre.