American artist Allison Green creates lush landscapes inspired by the forest playground of her childhood. Her figurative paintings, animal paintings and still-lifes are demonstrative of her affinity for the natural world.
Green was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, in 1974. Her childhood home was in the suburbs, on the outskirts of a forest in which she spent many happy days exploring. The outdoors still captures her imagination today. When she was a teenager, Green transformed her basement into a makeshift studio where she created a large piece of artwork on plywood for a school assignment. She’s been enamored with painting ever since.
Green attended the University of Maryland to study fine art, and she also spent time at the Studio Arts College International in Florence, Italy.
"My hope is that the viewer of my work is equally amazed and looks more closely at the small yet astounding details found in the natural world," Green told Vice magazine. When she paints, she seeks not only to portray the physical scene but also to imbue each piece with symbolism and narrative — anthropomorphism is at work, for example, in her “Arboreal Portraits,” which sees Green naming trees after strong women in her extended family.
Green has had four solo exhibitions at Susan Eley Fine Art in New York City: “Deeply Rooted” (2011), “Entwined” (2012), “Teeming” (2015) and “The Night Garden” (2018). She continues to live and work in downtown Jersey City and is part of the Brooklyn Museum’s Feminist Art Base.
On 1stDibs, find a collection of authentic Allison Green paintings.
$22,000
Dandelions (blue, green, white, floral, still life, oil on canvas painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Dandelions” by Allison Green is a vividly colorful oil painting by Allison Green. It depicts a single dandelion in full bloom surrounded by green and pi...
Canvas, Oil
Dream Weavers (Gold), Oil on oval wood panel
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“String Theory (Dusk)” by Allison Green depicts a spherical, leafy birdcage containing two birds against a pale pink background. The painting is part of Green’s “String Theory” serie...
Oil, Wood Panel
$22,000
Spanish Needles (yellow, green, white, flower, landscape oil on canvas painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Canvas, Oil
Spirit Guide
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Spirit Guide” by Allison Green is a large-scale oil painting inspired by butterfly migration. Depicting a cluster of amber colored butterflies set against the center of a deep red background, this work is part of Green’s “Celestial Navigation...
Oil
$960Sale Price|31% Off
Fern Study, botanical, floral, green plants
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an experience that has greatly im...
Canvas, Oil
Sun and Stars
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Sun and Stars” by Allison Green is an oil painting which depicts large-scale sunflowers set beneath a deep blue and starry night sky. The painting is part of Green’s new series, “T...
Oil
Corn Poppies, botanical, red and green
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
Celestial Navigation, butterfly, outer space
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas.
Canvas, Oil
Autumn Sunflowers
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green's “Autumn Sunflowers” depicts four brown, wilting sunflowers surrounded by a deep yellow, mimicking the colors of a fall sunset. This representational oil painting port...
Canvas, Oil
The Night Garden
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas in six parts With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. The crown jewel of this series is the monumental and eponymous painting The Night Garden...
Oil, Canvas
Flourish, botanical, green
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
Malia's Garden, botanical, floral, green and pink oil painting
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
Transmigration
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Transmigration” by Allison Green is a large-scale oil painting inspired by butterfly migration. Depicting a cluster of translucent butterflies set against the center of a deep blue background, this work is part of Green’s “Celestial Navigation...
Oil, Canvas
$840Sale Price|30% Off
Pontederia Dilatata Study, botanical, floral, green and purple
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
$760Sale Price|24% Off
Pink Dune Flowers Study, botanical, floral, green and pink
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
Adam's Needle Yucca, botanical, floral, green and purple plants
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
$22,000
Departure
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Bird...
Oil
Monsters and Monarchs
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. "Monsters and Monarchs" is one such example of this series, which Green has aptly named "The Night Garden." As in each luscious, nocturnal landscape in the series, Green offers us a look at what we mortals are typically not privy to, as we lay asleep indoors. Green shows...
Oil
Burden of Paradise
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Birds create various iconic for...
Oil, Canvas
Birds of Paradise
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
With each subsequent exhibition, Green has expanded the botanical content from single trees, bushes and weeds to now entire gardens--teeming with growth and rich with animal and plant life. Depicting plants blooming and thriving during the night, her cast of anthropomorphic characters includes Starlings, Stargazer Lilies, King and Queen Proteas, Peace Lilies, Royal Mushrooms and Monarch Butterflies. Enveloped in darkness yet illuminated by the starry sky, Green’s lush and mystical environments invite viewers to sit amidst the gardens of metaphors and uncover the stories within. "Birds of Paradise...
Oil
Sage Thicket (green, neutral, flora, vines, landscape painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on Canvas
Canvas, Oil
String Theory (Gold)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas
Canvas, Oil
$9,600Sale Price|20% Off
Life Force, butterflies, magenta
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Oil on canvas.
Canvas, Oil
$680Sale Price|32% Off
Sea Grass Study, botanical, floral
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
$680Sale Price|32% Off
Dune Grass Study, botanical, purple and yellow
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green was born in Philadelphia and grew up in a nearby rural suburb. Throughout her childhood Green lived on the periphery of a lush forest, an e...
Canvas, Oil
July Roses
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Love / Roses / Flowers / Pink / Couple / Pair / Allison Green grew up on the outskirts of a lush forest in Pennsylvania, an experience that continues to inform her artistic practice...
Canvas, Oil
$14,500
Ascendent, oil on canvas, 46 x 30 inches. Birds within a circular composition
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Birds create various iconic for...
Oil
Grief Box, pink figurative painting with bird and butterflies, landscape
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Like the 2015 String Theory series, the Dream Weavers takes its cue from the African Weaver Birds and their spectacular nest making skills. The Weaver Birds create various iconic for...
Oil, Canvas
String Theory (Blush)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“String Theory (Dusk)” by Allison Green depicts a spherical, leafy birdcage containing two birds against a pale pink background. The painting is part of ...
Canvas, Oil
$10,500
Battling Lovers (blue, green, trees, birches, landscape oil on canvas painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Battling Lovers” is part of a series of representational arboreal paintings by Allison Green. It depicts two thin, bare white birch trees with tangl...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Tropical Study 6, oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches. Plant painting, yellow
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green grew up on the outskirts of a lush forest in Pennsylvania, an experience that continues to inform her artistic practice. Primarily a painter, Green is best known for he...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Tropical Study 4, oil on canvas, 10 x 10 inches. Blue, plant painting
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green grew up on the outskirts of a lush forest in Pennsylvania, an experience that continues to inform her artistic practice. Primarily a painter, Green is best known for he...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Garden Study 1, oil on canvas, 8 x 8 inches. Violet background, flower painting
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Allison Green grew up on the outskirts of a lush forest in Pennsylvania, an experience that continues to inform her artistic practice. Primarily a painter, Green is best known for he...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Pollinate Me
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Couple / Pair / Love / Pink / Flowers / “Pollinate Me” is a representational nature painting by Allison Green, depicting a pair of overgrown lotus flowers encircled by bees. Green...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Crimson Lovers (trees, birches, red, white, landscape oil on canvas painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
Couple / Lovers / Pair / Nature / Red / “Crimson Lovers” is part of a series of representational arboreal paintings by Allison Green. This colorful painting depicts two bare white birch trees...
Canvas, Oil
Price Upon Request
Andrea (purple, maroon, tree, landscape oil on canvas painting)
By Allison Green
Located in New York, NY
“Andrea” is a representational oil painting by Allison Green. It depicts a tree with peeling bark with blossoming branches reaching upwards towards a deep purple sky. Green’s work is...
Canvas, Oil