Ashlee Selburg

The Guardian

2023

ASHLEE SELBURG Basile Ink and pencil on paper 40 x 30 inches

ASHLEE SELBURG Pan Ink and pencil on paper 40 x 30 inches

ASHLEE SELBURG Propagartion Ink and pencil on paper 20 x 16 inches

ASHLEE SELBURG Garden Party II Ink and pencil on paper 18 x 14 inches

Nature has always been Tara Esperanza’s muse and source of endless fascination and inspiration. From an early age, her love for the environment shaped her way of seeing the world. As...

Elizabeth Barlow’s contemporary still lifes are singular in their ability to capture beauty as a quiet, enduring presence. Her brilliant floral oil paintings are instantly recognizab...

“Gather” is an elegant still life by Boston-based artist McKenzie West, capturing a delicate arrangement of shells and crab claws nestled in a dark bowl. This intimate composition ex...

My paintings begin with a serious sense of play, both in the staging and the creating of the compositions. It is at this beginning stage that I operate under the Dadaist dictate that “anything can be art”, and at the same time I seek out a balanced and harmonious composition by way of line, shape, and color. I work according to my whimsy, sometimes seeking to assert some form of narrative however personal or ambiguous, and other times I am simply satisfied with the hint of a human presence. Once I have my compositions the paintings then very quickly become about work, a very labor intensive work that forces me to focus my mind and slow things down (which I feel is relevant especially in this day and age of high-speed everything). A great amount of effort is spent on trying to get to the highest level of finish that is possible according to my current skill level. For inspiration I have drawn from the past four centuries of object specific paintings, from the ontbijtjes (laid tables) of the 17th Century Dutch masters such as Willem Kalf, Jan Davidsz de Heem, Abraham van Beijeren...