2009
Ayton's latest artworks can be seen on the 2009 page, including two new ongoing series: The Entropy Series of drawings, and the Ruined City Series of paintings.
Future Human (Entropy Series), by William T. Ayton, 2009
March 2009
The above 2007 painting, "Men O' War" was on show at the Limner Gallery, Hudson NY, for the "Emerging Artists" group show. It was also recently published (December 2008) in Sow's Ear Poetry Review.
The Seer, 2008.
December 2008
A new page has been added to showcase Ayton's brush & ink drawings of heads done during 2008.
November 2008
A new series of 12 drawings to coincide with the artist turning 50 -- the Timeless Drawings.
The Logic of War
November 2008
The color painting "The Logic of War" based on a drawing from the Katz/Ayton book was on show at the Limner Gallery, Hudson NY, as part of the "Show of Heads."
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:
LOVE, WAR, FIRE, WIND: LOOKING OUT FROM NORTH AMERICA'S SKULL
New book 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.
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/
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.
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 painting apparently remained on show until February 2009.
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.
Cover of Paris/Atlantic literary review, 1994.
Leda, 1992
FOCUS ON MYTHOLOGY
As well as socio-political work (war, human rights, Holocaust, Hiroshima). Ayton has created many artworks depicting images based on classical and other mythologies over the years, which can be found scattered around this site. Here are a few examples: Leda, Cyclops, Medusa, Orpheus, Oedipus, the Minotaur.
