WORKS ON PAPER - available from Art & Wine Lounge - 158 Dorpstraat, Stellenbosch, +27 84 707 7770, info@artandwine.co.za




"WOP7" oil,acrylic,charcoal on paper, size A2, ZAR 9000


"WOP8" oil,acrylic,charcoal on paper, size A2, ZAR 9000


"WOP9" oil,acrylic,charcoal on paper, size A2, ZAR 9000


"WOP10" oil,acrylic,charcoal on paper, size A2, ZAR 9000















 

ARTWORK AVAILABLE FROM MY STUDIO - RIEBEEK KASTEEL, WESTERN CAPE - contact solsmook@gmail.com

"una tarde lenta" (reworked) - 60cmx50cm - oil,charcoal,acrylic on canvas - 2024



"meditar"_oil, charcoal on canvas_2023_100cm x 50cm_ZAR 65 000



"colore" - oil and charcoal on canvas - 120cm x 100cm - ZAR80 000 


"figurative3" - oil and acrylic on canvas - 40cmx40cm - 2024 - ZAR18 500


"figurative4" - oil and acrylic on canvas - 40cmx40cm - 2024 - ZAR18 500








 

PREVIEW OF ARTWORKS SOLD @ SOLO STUDIOS - 9,10,11 AUGUST 2024 -from my studio

 




"verde" - oil on canvas - 60cm x 50cm - 2022 - ZAR40 000
SOLD



"grisácea" - oil,acrylic,charcoal on canvas - 60cmx50cm - 2024
ZAR40 000
SOLD


"skye" - oil,acrylic,charcoal on canvas - 60cmx50cm - 2024
ZAR40 000
SOLD


"sol en mi mente" -  oil and acrylic on canvas - 80cm x 80cm 
ZAR 60 000
SOLD


"remembering milah" - oil, acrylic and charcoal on canvas - 80cm x 80cm - 2024
ZAR 60 000
SOLD

WORKS ON PAPER - A2 size - unframed

"WOP1" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD


"WOP2" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD


"WOP3" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD


"WOP4" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD


"WOP5" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD


"WOP11" - A2 - acrylic and charcoal - 2024
ZAR 9000
SOLD





























































A WRITING ....

 In your works I have often seen, particularly in the eyes, a quiet, even never-spoken of longing, a search, a quest, to accurately perceive, discern and meekly receive, within, as one left with no remaining alternative, an external visitation, an impartation, a help, an enveloping beauty of some total, sacrificial spiritual kind of saving, from someone able, another, not one of us, not entirely, yet still us, completely, far more perfect than you could conceive, an outreach, an outstretch, a reply, that includes an irrepressibly sustained, gradual, ever steady, never retreating, redeeming fabrication of that part which firstly matters, which truly matters - the invisible spiritual vessel adrift, but reveals as well an additional concern, and, so that his patient, pure, loving, humble, servant posture towards her is truly encompassing, and so as to gather up everything strewn and scattered, a restoring, a re-beautifying of her mortal physical vessel too, which though, for now, must return to the original dust, once first drawn up to sculpt, marrying powder with liquid, giving a spirit form, yet she will in the end escape that impending corruption, that engulfing chokehold, that inescapable woe of death, and be restored utterly, forever, in an eternal, ever-new life, with darkness discarded, and in unrelenting, realized, immortal hope only, to a glorified, incorruptible, unimaginably magnificent form far outshining even the most  gorgeous icon in the original earthly pattern could ever venture to generate from mere soil.

Now you paint the physical vessel but discernable and attempting to radiate through your sweep of brush and color, is the occupying spiritual vessel, especially and frequently evident in and focused through ineffable eyes.

Ashton James Gardner