Alice Instone makes paintings concerned with gender and power and frequently depicts influential or well known public figures. Her work is distinguished by a luscious palette, intense light and dark and sensuous application of paint.  

Her solo exhibitions include the House of Commons, Royal Society of Arts and Northampton Museum and she has exhibited with artists such as Yoko Ono and Sir Peter Blake amongst others.  Her work is held in several public collections and has been sponsored by Ernst & Young.

Radio 4 Woman’s Hour profiled her in May 2009 and The Sunday Telegraph said of her work:  ‘They are among the most well-known women in Britain but the chances are that you have never seen them like this before. Alice Instone’s work challenges the way women are traditionally portrayed’.  

She was shortlisted for the Women of the Future Award, sponsored by Shell and covered in The Independent who described her as 'young, female and tipped for the top'.