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1983 - 1984
St Martin's School Of Art
1981 - 1983
Sunderland College of Art
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Event: September Artist Exhibition Launch
Dates: 11 Sep 2020 - 1 Oct 2020
A much needed splash of colour is coming to The Paxton Centre to lift our spirits in September! In the words of French poet and art critic Joachim Gasquet " colour is a place where our brains and the universe meet"
We welcome our new Artists exhibiting and selling their work throughout the month.
Sadie Williams - Landscape Prints
Nicholas Ashton - Abstract Art Originals.
David Wolverson - Original fine art canvases and prints to order.
Gerri Keniger - Bold graphic design prints.
Zoe Hodgson - Local interest digital and screen prints.
At this socially distanced social event you can meet the artists, find out more about our creative workshops, browse and buy beautiful art works and enjoy a drink. Bar opens at 7pm for drinks with complimentary snacks.
Free entry with limited numbers so don't delay reserve your place today!
Event: Hommage and Transcription
Dates: 24 Apr 2015 - 24 Jun 2015
An exhibition of contemporary artists celebrating the art of the past
Biography
Nicholas Ashton
Nicholas Ashton is a mature artist whose work is in many private collections. His paintings are in oil, acrylic, on board or canvas. His current three dimensional works are made from cardboard and from steel.
He is originally from Portsmouth and moved to the North East in the early eighties to study Fine Art at Sunderland Art College. His work at this time comprised sculpture and paintings inspired by the works of the Baselitz, Auerbach, Bacon and Beckmann. The work was figurative, narrative and expressionist in style.
On graduation he embarked on the Advanced Sculpture Course at St. Martin’s School of Art, headed up at the time by Tim Scott and Alan Gouk. Here his preoccupation with working from the body as ‘way in’ to the understanding of corporeality and the translation of physicality into sculpture resulted in some dynamic work literally hacked into existence by means of primitive tools and techniques. These included splitting the material with steel wedges and hammers, and cutting and shaping the forms using an axe or an adze.
He now lives and works in London and his recent paintings are of a purely abstract nature. For a period the works were rooted in the English landscape tradition but he has gradually positioned himself in the abstract camp. His painting has become concerned with pure form, colour and space rather than attempting to represent nature. His statement, “Painting is about paint and what it does on the canvas so let’s just cut out the middle man” is a good starting point to understanding the nature of his work.
