GRANT 

AWARDED TO 

Alphonse Lane 

BY THE 

Pennsylvania Council on the Arts

Greater Philadelphia Area Cultural Alliance

Funded by the National Endowment for the Arts

and  

Pennsylvania Partners in the Arts 

2018-2019

ARTIST STATEMENT 

After I painted (Perfect Pear), (image below) I grew a sense of desire to explore 
go into various types of abstract (The Dawn of More) / (image below) yet came to the position that to me abstract is to create color balance, to orchestrate in a manner that 
all the colors sing. So that is where my artistic sensibilities are today. 
When I start a work, I still start on Baltic Birch Plywood because I enjoy immediate
Brush response and cover with a layer of Fine Belgium Linen then adhere with
Rabbit Skin Glue Gesso. I do this because I know that Rembrandt did the same 
approach however he used Lead White to bring the canvas to white. Then I am
assured of following the laws of permanence. 
I also use only the finest of pigments, Old Holland, Winsor Newton, Holbein and so forth. 
That to me is beauty, to get off with a running start that I have adhered to the laws and 
all I do assures permanence.

Image Below "Daphne" 40" X 40" 5/20/2020

Image Below, The Dawn of More 40" x 40" / Abstract  

Image Below Perfect Pear 24" X 24" 

Delicious Apple 36" X 36"

 Pitete Pear, 26"w X 38"h ~Oil on Linen mounted on Baltic Birch Panel 

  Great Bosc 50"w X 40"h

The Great Fallen Bosc, 40"h X50"w 

The Great Bosc Pear, 40"w X 50"h, 2017

Three Pears, 50" w X 40"h - 2017

Red Explosion 48" w X 36"h -  2017,  

 The Sapphire Growler 36"w X 24"h - 2017, 

  ALL PAINTINGS ARE COPYRIGHT  

Born Philadelphia 1961, Attended The Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts.  1982 - 1986 CFA. 
  Graduated The University of Pennsylvania with a BFA in 1995. PAFA, MFA, 2004.

 Currently paints in his studio.