Art Devon - Art Devon - Susan Elizabeth Ash

Cactus Flower

This is a luscious large image of a cactus flower in deep red with drooping sepals of off white and deep orange and yellow sweeping down towards the bottom of the print where it is outlined in deep black. a stunning giclee print on rag paper.

Cactus Flower 2

Cactus Flower 3

My Feathered Friend/collage

Collage with paint and glitter.  An image of a Barn Owl who flew over my head in the mist and left me feeling transfigured and blessed.  Using collage gives the painting an immediacy and lack of artifice, and feels different from a painted image.

Miss Haversham/photograph

One of many photographs fired by novels and films and the history of painting.  Many layered as an image and the second shoot of this subject.  I also have many images of this shoot and subject in black and white, but find the colour in this photograph very successful.

Forbidden Fruit /pastel

This is one of seven images of which 4 are now sold, they came one after the other in a very short space of time and are based on my grandmothers favourite flower, and also thoughts of her and of love and affection, loss/grief -the state I was in when I made these images, but also glorying in the colour, texture and sheer aliveness of the flowers and subsequent images.

Smoke in the Valley/pastel

This valley exists and someone set fire to it, and while everyone was running around with buckets and blankets I stood and took photos!!  Luckily no one minded as they like the images I have made.