ALAN IBELL

A Ghost Got in When I Wasn’t Looking features a new body of paintings that marks a clear shift in the artist’s practice.

In these works, Ibell adopts a more impressionistic approach to mark-making and paint application. Moving between diluted washes, dense impasto, and, at times, working directly onto raw, unprimed canvas, the paintings allow intuition, chance, and accident to play a central role in how images emerge.

This shift reflects a renewed interest in the personal and the everyday as sites through which broader, shared experiences can be felt. Influenced by Post-Impressionist painters, Ibell finds that domestic scenes and fleeting moments can carry a quiet universality.

The exhibition coincides with the birth of the artist’s daughter, an event that has reshaped both the content of the work and the rhythm of its making. With studio time compressed, decisions become bolder and more immediate, and uncertainty is embraced as a productive force.