Allison’s paintings begin not with a brush, but with a pour.

Working in fluid acrylics on stretched canvas, she thins her paints to a liquid consistency and layers them directly onto the surface — dots, stripes, and washes of color stacked one on top of the other. Then, using a piece of transparency film or a paper towel, she swipes across the canvas in a single deliberate motion. That one gesture reveals every color in the palette at once, pulling them into the flowing, lace-like formations that define her work.

From there, the painting takes on a life of its own. Allison tilts and guides the canvas to coax the colors into movement, then passes a torch across the surface — a technique that intensifies the cell formations, draws hidden colors up from deeper layers, and creates the bubble-like rings and web-like lacing that make each piece unmistakably hers.

The result is something that looks like it could never have been made by hand: forms that suggest marble, aerial landscapes, deep ocean floors. No two pours are ever identical — the chemistry of the paint, the temperature of the room, the angle of the canvas all conspire to make each work genuinely one of a kind.

Every painting is finished with Liquitex High Gloss Varnish, giving the surface a luminous, glass-like quality that makes the colors glow.