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Alice paints Greenham
Paperback
ISBN13: 9781739446819
Publisher: Lightning Source Inc
Published: Jun 20 2023
Pages: 292
Weight: 0.87
Height: 0.61 Width: 6.00 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
Alice soon realises that establishing herself as a successful artist is made all the harder for being female. How will she succeed in 1980s Britain? How did she get drawn towards Greenham Peace Camp?
After Alice marries Andrew she begins to pass her work as his, commanding higher sale prices. This situation eats away at her. Many women artists have had their work obliterated or even stolen, Alice realises she's done this to herself. At the same time she grows closer again to Jackie, her best friend who is Andrew's sister living in Cornwall. Alice is besotted by Jackie's new baby, Hollie. Whilst in Cornwall Alice hears about Greenham Peace Camp. She also decides to get her artworks re-attributed to her own name.
The voice of Greenham women is interwoven with Alice's story. Are these women focussed just on nuclear disarmament or more than that? An all women community, an alternative lifestyle, lesbianism, vegetarianism, cosmic forces. What does society think of them? Can they keep their families intact?
From time to time, Alice becomes a kind of artist in residence at Greenham. She and another Greenham artist, Kate tour with an exhibition inspired by Greenham Peace Camp. Alice makes life-long friends and her marriage to Andrew is under threat as is her relationship with her new god-daughter, Hollie.
Jarvis, a tabloid journalist, homes in on her previous fraudulent activities and argues that Greenham deserves better, that Alice is using the cause to further her career.
Alice's turning point as a woman artist, a story of self-realisation, is akin to that of many Greenham women. She serves a short prison sentence in support of the peace camp. Discovering her true self opens up possibilities and vulnerabilities.
In Part 2 Alice paints Greenham, Hollie comes of age and follows Alice's footsteps campaigning against war with all the enthusiasm and energy of youth. Twenty years after when Alice and her Greenham friends join the 40th anniversary march to Greenham, Hollie stands in awe of their long-standing commitment. Have women's voices been raised generation by generation?
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