designer profile ALICE BEASLEY

For many years, Alice Beasley has been making stunning figurative artworks from fabric. She says, “Back in the early 1990s, I was working as a lawyer and needed a refuge from the stresses of my job. I’ve always been interested in art and am fascinated by the Old Masters, especially Modigliani. As I looked at his elongated figures with their simplified features, I thought it was a form I could perhaps interpret in fabric, so that’s what I set out to do.”

Coming from a long line of women who made things with their hands, frequently in textiles, cloth was a natural choice for Alice’s artistic medium. “For as long as I can remember I’ve done things like knitting, crochet and dressmaking. Though, no one in my family