Inspiration
Alice’s inspiration comes from her family’s love of cooking, and growing up in the Herefordshire countryside surrounded by mountains, apple orchards and gardens filled with vegetables and flowers grown by her green fingered mother!
Her twin brother, Thomas Straker, is a chef, who inspired much of her early work. Alice would frequent Tom’s restaurants in London and paint the dishes that flew out of the kitchen.
Alice also draws on her knowledge of Art History, working closely with the colour wheel and often references movements and styles from Pop Art to Impressionism, Wayne Thiebaud to Matisse.
