Alice Lockhart

Alice Lockhart studied Illustration at Falmouth University, graduating in 2022, and completed the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School in 2023. Influenced by her interest in storytelling, her work weaves together imagery from dreams, memories and observations to create an imaginal space which is both familiar and yet deeply strange.

Etching with drypoint and aquatint showing a spooky witch's house, based on a story, by alice lockhart.

In the Witch’s House

by Alice Lockart,

Hard ground etching with aquatint and drypoint,

Edition of 10,

2023.

This artwork was inspired by a short story…

'She encircled my head with her fingers and rubbed it, singing something folky under her breath. She smelled more like Mama than a witch - of dishwater and borsch and Lancôme perfume. She massaged her song into my head, hard and fast, now building my hair up into a crown, now letting it fall to my shoulders. "Into the forest they go! Into the forest! Into the forest!" she shrieked. 

It felt good, but so what: this witch didn't know what she was doing. She had been wrong in her diagnosis of my pain, which was gone. I was doomed.  

She lifted her hands and blew hot breath on my nape.'

-extract from ‘The Witch' a short story from Snow in May by Kseniya Melnik (2014)