What ABOUT

Ashley Jennings

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Artist • Illustrator • Tutor • Printmaker • Maker • Poet.

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What makes me tick? What inspires me?

Family beauty Faith

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Artist Statement

There is occasionally a splatter of colour that is beautiful and serene. It may be the thing that brings us to a place of peace or sanity.

 

Light, life and beauty interest me more than anything when creating an image.  And yet I acknowledge the need to add into the story darker tones.

In my world I want colour.  I need light,  I want to create the beautiful thing.

A sunset, A moonlit night, a Rose. I want to tell of the hope that I hold in my heart. 

 

In my own dark days I have kept my eyes on the point of light. 

“When I have been going through hell I have kept going”. 

That expression may be a cliché but it describe where I have been and why I make and look for the thing that delights, brings hope, or enhances my own heart as well has an audience.

 

It may not be obvious what I have experienced or seen, what pain I have personally felt or seen in others in my work. My interested is not to express those things. But they are in the mixture of why I make and write in the way I do. 

I choose not to project the twisted decaying debris of life. 

I choose the rose.

 

Ashley P Jennings 2021

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