ABOUT THE ARTIST
Alexis Sones is a painter living and working in Austin, TX. She earned her Bachelor of Arts in Studio Art at Pomona College. After experiencing a personal transformation in October 2018 when her vision spontaneously restored after 25 years of wearing corrective lenses, she shifted her artistic focus from the external world of nature scenes and portraits to the inner landscape of the imagination.
Her paintings reflect an interest in elemental, primordial themes of creation myths across ancient cultures, and serve as both a personal evolutionary compass and a joyful meditation on the relationship between individual physiology and collective stories.
Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles and Austin.
ABOUT THE WORK
I paint imaginary beings and realms
arising from an inner sea.
I pluck a current from the electrical tree
and weave it through the void.
I am to explode the possible spectrum of colors,
listening for new wavelengths of light.
Alive,
dancing,
never the same
from one day to the next.
Recording moments of contact with my instinctual nature -
the alchemy of primordial joy.