FEATURED
IMAGE
"Tomb
Of Cyclops" (detail), 2006,
acrylic on masonite, 24 " x 24 ", new color
painting that was exhibited Oct/Nov 2006 at Barrett Art Center, Poughkeepsie
NY, as part of the solo show "Myths & Monsters". See
2006 page for more
images.
The previous home page image, "Civil
War", can be seen here.
Spring 2008
A new series of monochrome paintings can be seen on the 2008 page.
2008
A new web site has been created to showcase the UDHR (Universal Declaration of Human Rights) works -- the original drawings, the original paintings & also the Spanish series.
Fall
2007 --
The painting (right) of Article
23 from the Universal Declaration of Human Rights series
(1991) is featured on the cover of an academic book
on human rights and international trade. Here is the Amazon
link, and also the publisher's
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 & brutal reality.
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:
MUSEUM ON THE SEAM -
"BARE LIFE"
October
2007 - October 2008 -- The small painting, "Hiroshima:
Ground Zero" (left), as well as several War Room
studies, are in the show, "Bare
Life" at the Museum on the Seam,
in Jerusalem, Israel. Opening was Oct 12th, it will run
until October 2008. Click here to
see the invitation to the show. The show features 42 artists
from around the world, including Anselm Kiefer, Bruce
Nauman,
Bill Viola, Sophie Calle & William
Kentridge. Curator: Raphie
Etgar.
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.
Fact
sheet: click
here for
the UDHR project
description page (printer-friendly)
U.D.H.R.
A
new web site has been set up for the UDHR artworks here: www.UDHRart.org.
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. These digital images are currently
housed on the udhr.org site.
The images will
open in a new browser window.Click here to
see a page of photos from the UDHR shows.The 55th anniversary
of the signing of the UDHR is on Dec. 10th, 2003. Please
email info@ayton.net if
you are interested in using the UDHR images for appropriate
purposes.
PUBLISHED
WORK
Here is a small (but expanding) gallery of
published Ayton images—covers,
illustrations, wine labels, and so on, collected in one
place. More images will be added as they appear.
From
the New York Times Op-Ed page, August 6, 2001, "The Nuclear
August of 1945".
