Tell us a bit about yourself, who is Alison Veazey?

I’ve been living in Devon for the last ten years with my two daughters and a black cat. I drink a lot of tea.

What inspires your work?

I can’t fail to be inspired living in south Devon! I moved here from the Fens, where it’s flat and bare, and I fell in love with the tight lanes and high hedges, where you just glimpse a slice of landscape through a gap in the trees, and then it’s gone again. So, landscape is often the starting point for my work, but it can end up having more to do with composition, pattern and surface. I can’t resist quirky architectural features – not all of my work is landscape-based.

How did you feel when dci first approached you about them using your art for their cover?!

Surprised and flattered!

What artists are rocking your visual world at the moment?

I’ve always loved Klimt’s landscapes, especially where there’s just a little corner of sky and most of the painting becomes a dense area of pattern. Contemporary artists I admire include Francis Boag for the way he uses clashing colours in his landscapes, Jenny Wheatley, whose work is lively and colourful, and Kurt Jackson, for the way he deals with texture and surface in his landscapes. But if I could only take one painting to my desert island it would probably have to be a massive Rothko.

What music is rocking your audio world at the moment?

I’m loving the new albums by PJ Harvey and Tom Waits

What projects are you currently involved with?

I’ve recently done a joint project with my daughter, Jemima, based on Antony House at Torpoint. There are some beautiful gates there with lovely spiral patterns that appeared again and again in our work, and now I’m working on some ideas from a week I spent walking in the Lake District in the rain this summer.

What’s next on the horizon for the artist Alison Veazey?

I’m hoping to get some city air sometime soon, and take in some new architecture…

This piece was part of a project I was commissioned to do for the Royal Albert Memorial Museum in Exeter, When they closed temporarily for major refurbishments, they needed some artwork (inspired by the museum’s collection) that could be taken out to schools, and used as the starting point for art projects within school. It was important to keep the education programme going while children couldn’t visit the museum. My works were based on the architecture of the building itself.

More of Alison Veazey’s artwork can be found on her website www.alisonveazey.co.uk

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