Alice Gipps

Alice is passionate about horses, having grown up riding since the age of three and later studying an Honours Degree in Equine Science at Oxford Brookes University. More recently she has successfully trained her own ponies to a high level; her desire to increase her equine knowledge never tires.

At 21 years old, while still at Oxford, she would spend her weekends and summer holidays drawing horse portrait commissions and producing freelance articles and photographs for the Polo Times Magazine. She started out covering the ‘Pony Power’ page for the publication, which entailed interviewing and photographing the top high goal players with their favourite polo ponies. The Polo Times soon discovered Alice had a talent for producing quality polo action images. Her photographs were used to accompany editorial pieces in the magazine, as cover shots and subsequently led to her providing polo images for national newspapers, international polo publications and being invited to cover numerous polo events including Royal days.

Although diverted from her path of a degree in Art, the knowledge gained with the Equine Science degree, paired with her riding experience and subsequently learning to play polo in exchange for helping out at the Royal County of Berkshire Polo Club, has given her a deeper understanding of both subject and sport. This is a unique benefit, combined with an artistic eye, she is able to consistently capture superb equine images.

The Focus on Fine Art Photography

Whilst following a successful career in polo action photography early on and becoming one of the leading photographers in the sport, it has only been in the last 10 years that Alice sought a deeper connection with her artistic roots to create Fine Art Photographs. Creating these images is a way to express her love of horses, therefore her own ponies have greatly influenced her early Fine Art Photography.