Ashwinstudio art blog - November, 2020


Plastic Eating Microbe

3rd November, 2020

Plastic Eating Microbe, found objects and materials collected whilst sketching at Lamas Land, Cambridge and Paradise Nature Reserve. This includes, plastic packaging, a car gasket, foil and an old plimsoll. I cut […]

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Object Identity: Lockdown Beer Can Litter

9th May, 2020

Went for a morning walk to get some exercise and along my route documented another four cans littering the streets. Even Covid 19 has not stopped some people littering! View my Beer […]

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Extinction Event

18th April, 2020

As part of my art practice I decided to research if humans are responsible, at least in part, for the extinction of animals and then list them. I created a database to […]

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Siting sculptures at Kingham Lodge

10th May, 2012

A rainy day siting my recycled metal sculptures at Kingham Lodge sculpture exhibition.

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A flail skid and bit of combine harvester

29th June, 2010

Otherwise known as the Bomford Bench although it could just easily been titled the New Holland Bench… The Bomford bench is created from scrap farm parts including a Bomford flail skid (the seat), […]

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A new metal sculpture – Les Liens Familiaux

20th October, 2009

I have finally completed a new metal sculpture from all the scrap metal and car parts I have been collecting and recycling. It is titled ‘Les Liens Familiaux’,  it stands about 6ft […]

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Metal sculptures on show at Sculpture Garden

12th October, 2009

I am delighted to announce that I have just put two of my metal sculptures on display at Haddenham Gallery Sculpture Garden.  It is fantastic and interesting venue to display art and […]

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Recycled Art

12th May, 2009

I have started producing a new series of work titled ‘recycled art’. This involves buying discarded art (often for a few quid) from charity shops and then reworking them. I keep some […]

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Progress Green

22nd April, 2009

Just finished this experimental painting, it is painted in oils on canvas board, and in style sits somewhere between my abstract and fenland  landscape work. It is my way of expressing how […]

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Sculpture from found objects

12th March, 2009

For many years I worked as a prototype engineer where designed and constructed a variety of products made from metal. So I am comfortable working with metal and have no problem welding […]

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