Texture Detectives

Come one, come all! Ally's having a show for Art of the Danforth. The opening is this Sunday from 5:30pm to 8:30pm at 1238 (Greenwood and) Danforth, there will be lots of artwork and snacks! Fat Chicks Corner will also be selling zines and cards from 10am to 4pm on the same day, at 1439 (Parkmount and) Danforth. This is the debut of the "Just Us Girls" zine. Images by Ashley Lil, Eunice Luk and Allison Philp. StoreHouse Ltd. 2012. Get them while you can, this is the best one yet!

Lee WiseBlood

Ashley Lil and StoreHouse, Lee WiseBlood Printmaker at Work.

Forget-Me-Not

Ashley Lil and StoreHouse, Forget-Me-Not 2012. Published by Fat Chicks Corner.

Win Some Lose Some

 OCADU, Sharon Merkur Memorial Award (Printmaking Woodcut).

The Royal Academy, Summer Exhibition Shortlisted.

Classified by StoreHouse....

WANTED:

Ashley Lil's Career

Artist frantically searching career that embraces revving vacuums, ultra magnetism, ultra romanticism, virtue, intuition, sleep overs, vacations, and claimed notes.

Loves working with children. Wild at heart, boy crazy, occasionally addicted, rebellious. 

Lady eagerly awaiting your arrival and looks forward to seeing you soon.

Purpose is an asset.

Will be willingly yours, yours, yours!

ALLISON LEIGH PHILP: LABYRINTH FOR ASH

ALLISON LEIGH PHILP: LABYRINTH FOR ASH:   Found this in an Ancient History book from 1927. The text reads "Drawing of a Labyrinth by a Roman school boy. Found at Pompeii."

Beautifully Messy

 Cherry Blossoms and Exposure Room

Living the dream....

 Printing at home.

The Death of Beauty

Fly Path Workshop

A couple of weeks ago I held a 'fly path' workshop at Clinton Street Public School with children in grades 3 and 4. Check out their amazing prints and drawings.

97th Annual OCADU Graduate Exibition

Come check out OCADU Printmaking Graduates, May 3rd on the second floor in the Great Hall.

ROCK N ROLL 4 TONIGHT

Hand Picked Flowers

"artist's hands should always be busy"

From Painting to Print

A Walk in the Maze, Photo and Watercolour, 12" x 14", 2010.

John Ekonomakos and Ashley Lil, It's a Monet, Lithography, 30"x 40", 2012.

"From far away, it’s OK, but up close, it’s a big old mess."

Pink Moon

 Classical Music + Visual Art = Pink Moon

Wild At Heart

The Weight of Beauty

 My 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, I argue for the virtue of, the often overlooked, temporal beauty.

Move Into Despair