Alice Tye was born in 1991 in Kent, UK and is an illustrator and painter based in London. She studied Illustration at Camberwell College of Art and graduated in 2013 with a first class BA (Hons). Alice Tye has exhibited throughout London and has worked for a number of companies and publications including Moët Hennessy, The Guardian and The Washington Examiner.

The English artist’s paintings are realistic but they always have a human element, something a bit strange that makes them not exactly perfect.
She works with oil paints on paper and canvas and often uses digital editing to create the initial compositions and to make final adjustments. However, she still paints each piece by hand to keep the textures and brushstroke marks in the work.

Her latest work in order of time is called “Hello America” inspired by J G Ballard‘s novel of the same name. The premise of the book is that climate change has reversed the climate of the United States, so New York City and Washington D.C. have become large deserts of sand dunes and cacti. As characters move across the country, the weather becomes wetter, which has turned Los Angeles and Las Vegas into dense jungles full of wild animals and vibrant flowers.
“His descriptions of J G Ballard’s dystopian landscape of the United States were so detailed and colorful that I wanted to do a work based on the novel from the first reading in 2014, I started by sifting through my photographs of New York, Los Angeles and Las Vegas, which are the main focus of the novel’s action.“

Alice Tye hopes that the series will make people think a little bit about climate change and how this situation in many years time may not be so far from reality.