ALI BASSETT

Lives and Works: Penzance, United Kingdom

“Folktales, morals and old wives tales, overheard stories and the proverbial wisdom of the superstition all influence my work. There’s a real beauty in the lessons and stories handed down orally through generations. The world around me always creeps into my work, a glimpse of the sea, the horizon, fields and trees decorate these stories as we relearn what we once knew about the nature around us, its importance and how to love and nurture this and in doing so, ourselves.”