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. This has been enlarged to A1 and is mounted on ivory board and framed withwaxed oak, v expensive and classy! 

Cactus Flower 2

This is the second flower and is as luscious as the first.  Taken on my Nikon and well worth every penny.

For information re size see previous cactus flower

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. This image is large, 3ftx4ft, and framed.

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.  this photograph was shot in a disused flat, converted into a studio for a weekend.  It was taken on a Hasselblad with a 60ml lens.

It is mounted but unframed

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.  It is beautifully framed and mounted and was done on A2  heavily textured pastel paper.

I love the light the way it licks the high hills behind and the sky too, a dusky blue

The hem of my gown - photograph

This photograph is based on a picture by the painter Claude and is called Noli Mi Tangere, which literally translated means "Touch me not"  Which I used for this series of photographs.