Angles of Light

About Angles of Light

This large-scale light-filled acrylic abstract painting is by Alice Teichert.

For more than four decades, this award-winning Canadian artist has been exploring and developing her own unique visual language. For Teichert, light, colour and lyrical abstract form ‘say’ what words cannot adequately express.
In this painting that appears to resemble the horizon, Teichert’s signature use of layer upon layer of translucent and almost iridescent paint in blues, purple and cloud-like wisps of white creates a rich backdrop for the dominant image--a shining sphere. The base of the composition is anchored by a contrasting field of soft gray and white and layered bands of bright orange and red.

The complex lacework of soulful elements in Alice Teichert’s art is rooted in a life spent embracing the arts—playing music, writing and drawing. Alice’s mother was an accomplished pianist, and once, while she was playing, an artist and family friend encouraged a 12-year-old Alice to draw the sound of her mother’s music.

“ I play with the transparencies…the layering comes with the techniques that I have borrowed from serigraphs…that take dozens of pieces and you put all of these images together.” Alice Teichert

Alice Teichert was born in Paris, France, in 1959. She studied music, philosophy and visual arts in Belgium and France. Teichert’s degree in printmaking and subsequent work solidified a lifelong fascination with text, another signature element of her artwork. Teichert moved to North America in the mid-1980s, living between New York City and Toronto. There, she met some of the most respected abstract expressionist artists of the time, including Jules Olitski and Kenneth Noland. Helen Frankenthaler, a major player in the history of American post-war painting, was highly regarded for her spontaneous approach and fluid, lyrical style and became a mentor to Teichert.

Since 1989, Alice Teichert has built an international career with over 40 solo exhibitions in Canada, France, Switzerland, Germany and Australia. The recipient of numerous awards, in 2024, she was inducted into the prestigious Royal Academy of Canadian Arts (RCA) in recognition of her exceptional contribution to the visual arts. Alice Teichert’s paintings are held in many private, corporate and public collections worldwide.