Aly is a master at producing  pieces of fluid, dynamic plasticity which yet remain attached to their natural origin. ‘I love creating forms which partially emerge from the block of stone. They have life, yet they remain attached to their natural origin: almost embryonic. Looking for the inherent potential and colours in the stone, my female forms create a sensuality which appeals to both male and female collectors’.

Aly attended Heatherley’s Art School as a mature student twenty years ago, having discovered her passion for stone carving she never looked back. Her semi-figurative pieces emerge gracefully from the stone as if unlocking the form within. She is a master at producing pieces of fluid, dynamic plasticity which yet remain attached to their natural origin. ‘ I love creating forms which partially emerge from the block of stone. They have life, yet they remain attached to their natural origin: almost embryonic. Looking for the inherent potential and colours in the stone, my female forms create a sensuality which appeals to both male and female collectors’. Her flowing and organic alabaster forms in particular, transform our preconceived understanding of inflexible stone. She has the ability to make the stone appear to bend, flex and ripple carved to such thinness and delicacy they glow with translucency. Each form seems to be frozen within the stillness of the stone and yet pulsating with life and vitality. Aly’s approach to sculpting is deeply sensitive, each lump of stone is pondered and considered before gradually unlocking the form within. While they are static, inanimate objects there lies within the possibility of form coming to life before our gaze. Working from her studio in South London, Aly is a regular contributor to the country’s most important stone carving exhibition ‘On Form’ She has shown at the Sladmore Gallery and Lucy Campbell in London, and the Iona House Gallery in Woodstock. Her work is widely collected. and her work is widely collected.

“Perfectly still, and yet full of movement; Aly Brown’s  sculptures have a fluid vitality to them. Her materials are often hewn  straight from the dramatic landscape around her studio in Norway, and  the primary and pure energy of their composition evokes the once-liquid  movement of the stone which she has so deftly carved into the cool,  curvilinear forms of her sculptures. This energy is, in part, made  possible by her exceptional dexterity: alabaster seems to ripple in the  air as we pass it, an undulating ribbon of stone tapering to an  impossibly fine edge. Or, quietly resting sensual forms seem to hold  their breath as we go by, momentarily static under our gaze. The poetry  of these sculptures unmistakably conjures up living movement, warmth,  flesh – life. Just as, in a photograph, a living form can be fixed in  the absolute stillness of silver gelatine, so Aly’s sculptures achieve a  sense of dynamic life, frozen in the stillness and perennity of the  subtle and beautiful stone in which she works.”

- Oliver Beer, winner of the Saatchi Post Graduate award 2009