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The print Plant Bands and Systematic Sections, continues an exploration into the idea of the botanic garden. Based on a diagram of the garden at Gembloux in Belgium, each of its carefully calibrated tonal shifts represents a different family bed – or band. The title, translated directly from the French, refers to the systems of classification typical of a scientific garden and, with its suggestion of musical notation, is also a precise description of an abstract image.

Biography
Alison Turnbull (b. in Bogotá, Colombia) studied in Spain and Great Britain. Fusing the representational with the abstract, she uses found drawings as generative starting points for her meticulously crafted paintings. Recent solo exhibitions include Houses into Flats, Milton Keynes Gallery 2000, Cube, Manchester 2001 and Modern Art Oxford 2001; Hospital, Matt’s Gallery, London 2003; World in a Chamber, University of Oxford 2005 and an exhibition following a residency at ArtSway in the New Forest 2005. She was awarded the Rome Scholarship in the Fine Arts in 2002. Her books include Spring Snow– A Translation Book Works 2002; The Family Beds, University of Oxford 2005, and Black Borders 1994 – 2006 Piece of Paper Press, London 2006. She has also worked with architecture and recently completed a project for Moorfields Eye Hospital, London 2007. Currently she is working on a major commission for Vine Street in London, which will be accompanied by a book published by Matt’s Gallery. Alison Turnbull’s work is in the Arts Council of England collection, The British Council, Deutsche Bank AG London, Government Art Collection London, and the Imperial War Museum, London. Alison Turnbull lives and works in London and is represented by Matt’s Gallery, London.

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