Alison Ledbetter is an oil painter based in Dallas, Texas. Originally achieving a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of North Texas, she stepped away from art for a time to advance her corporate career. Those several years away reignited her passion for creativity and solidified her identity as an artist at her core, leading her to picking up the brush again.
Upon her return to art in 2021, she chose oil painting as her dedicated craft, spending years teaching herself the foundations of traditional oil painting as well as human anatomy. Alongside technique, she nourished her creativity, often by creating work in a flow state where the work’s meaning is not predetermined but rather emerges organically throughout the process. Overtime, the portrayal of emotions continued to surface, revealing itself as an overarching theme that is prevalent in her work today. She seeks to marry the traditional backdrop of figurative oil painting overlaid with the abstraction of feeling.
Her work strives to depict emotions and memories held within one’s innermost self, what she has deemed “internal landscapes.” Abstract feelings gel, they take up mass and space, their energy spills out and into the world. It is a glimpse into the most sacred space one holds in the mind. It is a portrait of self, in its truest form.
Alison Ledbetter Art 