Hello! I’m Stevie, Alison’s creative muse (and dog). Despite creating this amazing portfolio, Alison still has a hard time writing about herself. Thankfully, I am here to do it for her!

So, here some stuff to know about Alison:

Alison grew up on the Piscataqua River (Maine), She went to college on the bank’s of the St. Lawrence (Queen’s University, Ontario). She went to graduate school a stone’s throw from the Thames (University College London). Now she lives by the gentle currents of the East River (Brooklyn). 

Alison has always loved to draw and drew a lot as a kid. 

But for some reason when Alison was “grown up”, she stopped drawing for a long, long time. 

Alison studied Sustainable Urban Planning and Design and worked for the city of New York as an Urban Planner. 

This is where her love of public art began!

In 2018, Alison picked up watercolor painting as a hobby. Despite the very poor results, she was hooked.  Alison took night classes, she studied illustration, storytelling, and sequential art with the Art Students League of New York and the School of Visual Arts. 

In 2021, Alison left her career in urban planning to pursue a career as an illustrator. 

Since then, she’s worked with small businesses, non-profit organizations, and city governments. She’s created public murals, ice sculptures, coloring books pages, hockey jerseys, wedding programs - the list goes on and on - she’s done a lot! 

Her illustrations were published in Gnomes and Ungnomes: Poems of Hidden Creatures.

Oh, and she had a baby!

Alison writes a weekly(ish) newsletter called Practice Makes where she writes all about her artistic practice.

You can also follow her on instagram at @alisoncynamon

That’s pretty much Alison in a nutshell!

If you want to learn more you can ask her yourself - just e-mail her at hello@alisoncynamon.com