FEATURED
IMAGE
Above: "Orpheus | Angel in Amber", 2011, digitally remixed version
of a drawing. Original dimensions 16.5" x 14". See the original drawing here and a larger version of the altered one here.
The previous home page image, "Memory is a Chimera", from 2010, is
now here.
Winter
2011/12 Shadow
Bay, the noir visual novel with writer Donald
J. Rothschild, is available now from Amazon.
There was a reading at Oblong
Books, Rhinebeck NY, on January
13th 2012.
Sept. 2011
The Book of Souls in Direct Art magazine volume 18, please
click
here.
Spring/Summer 2011
A collaborative chapbook with NZ poet, Jack
Ross, Scenes
from The Puppet Oresteia contains 24 drawings
and a color cover by Ayton. Now
available as a print-on-demand
publication from Amazon and Lulu.
Fall 2010
Ayton's recent painting, The
Totalitarian,
was on show at the Limner
Gallery in Hudson, NY, during November 2010, for
the "Show of Heads".
click image for details
Summer 2010
Chicago artist/musician Tim Lowly used
Ayton's painted drawing from 1998, "Zeitgeist" on a poster for his July 10 show at Ronny's in Chicago.
Fall-Winter 2009
Shadow Bay—the noir graphic novel blog collaboration with Donald J. Rothschild is online here. Warning: there is some adult content.
Fall 2009
The latest Direct Art Magazine volume 16 (fall-winter 2009) contains the drawing "Future Human" on page 51, with a short text piece by Ayton. Direct Art Magazine/The Limner Gallery has a web site here.
Future Human (Entropy Series), by William T. Ayton, 2009
Head of Achilles, silverpoint drawing by William T. Ayton, 2009.
See
Ayton's most recent works: 2012
Gallery and works from 2011.
For the other galleries, please see the navigation links
on the left side of this and almost every page.
This
is the web site of British artist William T. Ayton (now
resident in the Hudson Valley in upstate New York). The artist's
work inhabits the interface between myth, the human condition,
beauty & imagination.
Contact
the artist via e-mail:
If
you wish to inquire about licensing any of the images
on this site for commercial or non-commercial purposes, please
e-mail:
IN
HUMANITY 1991-2011 In
Humanity is a series of ink drawings which was started around
the same time as the UDHR series (see item below). It consists
of around 36 drawings which focus on challenges and problems
that the human race faces or has created for itself. The
entire series, spanning a period of 20 years, can be seen
on Flickr.
THE
BOOK OF SOULS The
Book of Souls is a collaboration with Tim
Lowly (see also in news section below left)
featuring portraits and other work by Ayton, with photography,
art & Photoshop processing / remixing by Lowly.
Fact
sheet: click here for
the UDHR project description page
(printer-friendly)
The Universal
Declaration of Human Rights (U.D.H.R.) was signed
on December 10th, 1948, by the United Nations. In 1991 & 1992,
Ayton did a series of drawings and paintings based on
the UDHR which have been extensively exhibited in Europe
and the USA. Click the image at left or here to
see the UDHR paintings, on a site created specifically
to showcase them, plus the original drawings and a Spanish
version of the paintings created in Seville in 1992. Please
email info@ayton.net if
you are interested in using the UDHR images for appropriate
purposes.
The
images can also be seen at the following web sites, along
with further information & news about the UDHR: http://www.udhr.org/ (History
section) http://www.udhr.net/
LOVE, WAR, FIRE, WIND: LOOKING OUT FROM NORTH AMERICA'S SKULL
Featuring poems & prose by Katz, & the cover painting ("North America's Skull") & interior ink drawings by William T. Ayton. The book is published by Narcissus Press (Jan. 2009). You can see a preview page here.
MUSEUM ON THE SEAM -
"BARE LIFE"
October
2007 - June 2008 -- The small painting, "Hiroshima:
Ground Zero" (left), as well as several War Room
studies, were in the show, "Bare
Life" at the Museum on the Seam,
in Jerusalem, Israel. Opening was Oct 12th, it ran
until June 2008. Click here to
see the invitation to the show. The show featured 42 artists
from around the world, including Anselm Kiefer, Bruce
Nauman, Bill Viola, Sophie Calle & William
Kentridge. Curator: Raphie
Etgar. Update: the Hiroshima painting apparently remained on show until February 2009.
The
War Room
The War
Room is an anti-war installation of four wall-sized painted
panels by Ayton showing the four faces of war. We
have uninstalled the two versions from sites in New
York
City and Poughkeepsie (September 2004).
Several
of the works on this website have also been on show in
exhibitions
in Washington, DC & Milwaukee, WI, with more shows on
the way. Visit The
War Room.
THE
LIMNER GALLERY
William
T. Ayton is represented in the upstate New York region
by the Limner Gallery of Hudson, NY. The gallery is located
at 123 Warren Street, Hudson, NY 12534. Phone: 518-828-2343. Click
here for the gallery's home page, and here
for Ayton's artist page on the Limner Gallery
web site.
PUBLISHED
ARTWORK
Here is a selected gallery of
published Ayton images—covers,
illustrations, wine labels, and so on, collected in one
place. More images will be added as they appear.
Cover of Paris/Atlantic literary review, 1994.
Featured
at the Foot of the Home Page Study of Three Heads, 2011, a triptych of drawings.
Please click
here for a larger version.
