ALISON THISTLETHWAITE
©david and ali thistlethwaite 2011
About Ali Thistlethwaite
Nature is very important to Ali as well, and colour and brushstroke are constantly influenced by the natural world around (see view from studio!)
In the studio, 2009
Ali was educated in art at St Albans School of Art, in music at Cambridge’s Anglia Ruskin University, in Music Therapy at The Guildhall School of Music, London, and in education at Cambridge University.
Ali’s wide portfolio of skills comes together in painting and also in running art and creative workshops. Born into a family of painters (she grew up watching her grandfather, the illustrator AE Kennedy, at work, and her great-uncle Cecil Kennedy, whom she knew well, was a renowned flower painter), she began by painting flowers and landscape in watercolour (exhibited Cambridge 1982-3). In the last decade she has developed her own expressive pictorial language, a type of ‘abstract expressionism’, following in part a path indicated by the work of friends Richard Kenton Webb and Paul Hobbs.With her husband David, also a painter and teacher, Ali has developed art courses for both the inexperienced and the