Aisleigh Anne

For Aisleigh, art is a visceral experience. She embraces the messiness of experimentation and the freedom of hands-on expression, allowing the process to guide the painting rather than forcing a fixed outcome.

From a young age, Aisleigh was drawn to making things with her hands. Before focusing fully on painting, she worked as a chocolatier, and that experience still feeds directly into her art practice. Working with chocolate taught her the joy of tactile, manipulative materials - layering, scraping, splattering, textures, experimenting with form and colour. Paint feels the same way to her: a material that can be shaped, layered, and explored in countless ways, inviting play, intuition, and experimentation.

Colour plays a central role in her work and is closely linked to emotion. As a colourist, she uses colour intuitively, experimenting with balance and contrast to create different moods and energy - from calm and stillness to warmth and gentle uplift. Through expressive mark making and the use of mixed mediaI aim to capture the essence and energy of a place.

Many of her days are spent painting and sketching en plein air. These spontaneous studies, along with reference photography, form the starting point for larger mixed-media paintings developed back in the studio.

Inspired by the Cornish landscape, Aisleigh's mission is to share the power of art, nature, and colour to help others, just as it has helped her. She aims to create expressive work that brings warmth and joy into your home and captures that uplifting feeling of being outside in nature - a deep, steady breath you didn’t realise you needed.

"Cornwall is a landscape that has healed me more than I can say, especially during times when anxiety has been a big part of my life. Spending time in nature, painting expressively, and surrounding myself with colour and creativity has genuinely helped me find calm, balance and joy, and this sits at the heart of my work."