Pleasure of RUINS

WeekEnd Fun

And through their process they inspired each other to become better artists and it was lovely.

Ashley Lil 5

my favourite EVER birthday cake. Age 5.

Camp Rest A While

i think it needs a coat of paint...camp rest a while.

missing home.

the thinker...hmm...

the thinker... ink and acrylic on paper. 2016.

untitled.

untitled. graphite and ink on paper. 2016.

Rodin: Latest find from my bookshop.

Sleep

Return to the Embrace

oil on found object. 2015.

4am checkin 

SchoolBoy Error

Wild Flowers: Lino Matrix Relief.
Sadly I forgot to invert the image. So no printing for me. x

Wandering Around Aimlessly

I forgot how much I enjoy wandering around the galleries.

The Perils of Muses

Muses: branded both the saviour and the enemy.

Delicately Structured

I love how delicate this sculpture is. TATE Modern.

Gego, Horizontal Square Reticularis 71/10.

Sacks/Stockings/Rags&Rope

Sacks/Stockings/Rags&Rope

Magdalena Abakanowicz, Embryology. 1978-1980.

The Keepsake

 

The Keepsake, graphite on paper. 

The Keepsake was an English literary annual which ran from 1828 to 1857, published each Christmas.

What a babe?!

Check out this stunning painting of my great grandmother.

Head of the family matriarch, Lena Sharp aka Nanny Lil.

This, That and...

UNNAMED ARTIST.

WET Rogue Drawings: Paris

WET Rogue Drawings: Paris, page 6, ink on paper. 2016.

the traveler

the traveler, ink on paper. 2016

helmut newton.

London Underground. ink on paper. 2016.

At Frieze London 2015.

Permitted + Prohibited Desires

Permitted + Prohibited Desires (Cupid), ink on paper. 2016.

unknown artist

Wild Flowers

Thesis Revisited:

The weight of beauty is defined by it's temporal nature, that which, paradoxically, provides and deprives it of it's very essence.

Ashley Lil's work explores the tension between the formation, existence, preservation and decay of the beautiful,  as well as the mixed emotions attached to these qualities of the temporal. By capturing, honouring, yearning for, transforming, and imparting a heightened stature upon a candid or fleeting moment in time, she argues for the virtue of, the often overlooked, temporal beauty.

A Day In The Black Forest

And peasant girls, with deep blue eyes,
And hands which offer early flowers,
Walk smiling o'er this paradise:
...

-Byron

Meh. :(

Bush Vetch.-Diam: nearly 1/2 in. ; length over  1/2 in. ; flowers dull, pale purple, about 4 in a nearly sessile raceme ; sepals 5 ; petals 5, unequal ; stamens 10 ; leaflets 5-8 pairs ovate ; hedges ; 1-3 ft. (v.c.)

Ripped Text & Image from StoreHouse.

Identifying Wild Flowers

Chicory or Succory.-Heads diam: 1 1/2 in: pale blue ; florets all ray, strap-shaped ; bracts 8, with outer smaller ones ; lower leaves 6-8 in., as in Dandelion, upper oblong, clasping ; stem angles, grooved, strong ; waysides ; 1-3 ft. (L.)

How To Find & Name Wild Flowers

Scentless Mayweed.-Diam: of heads 1 3/8in ; rays white, disc yellowish-green ; leaves twice pinnatifid, with hair-like segments ; disc nearly flat ; waste places ; 6-20in. (v.c.)

Great Hairy Willow Herb.-Diam: nearly 1in. ; length 3/4in. ; sepals 4 ; petals 4 ; stamens 8 ; stigma 4-cleft ; leaves opposite, hairy, lanceolate, clasping, 3 1/2in ; river-sides and other wet places; 4-6ft. (c.)

This week I bought a stunning book with woodcut prints 

and it has inspired me todo relief style drawings. xxx

In bed with Bryon

She Walks In Beauty.
SHE walks in beauty, like the night
   Of cloudless climes and starry skies;
And all that's best of dark and bright
  Meet in her aspect and her eyes:
Thus mellow'd to that tender light
  Which Heavens to gaudy day denies.

One shade the more, one ray the less,
  Had half impair'd the nameless grace,
Which waves in every raven tress,
  Or softly lightens o'er her face;
Where thoughts serenely sweet express,
  How pure, how dear their dwelling-place.

And on that cheek, and o'er that brow,
  So soft, so calm, yet eloquent,
That smiles that win, the tints that glow,
  But tell of days in goodness spent,
A mind at peace with all below,
 A heart whose love is innocent.

-Bryon

Studio Clean Up

The studio is cleaned and Francois is pumped. 

I  still need a new calendar though...xx