Ashley Collins

Mist, Beige and Sepia Mixed Media Painting with horse

2011

The Cantabrian sculptor José Cobo studied stone carving and al fresco painting at the San Fernando Academy of Fine Arts in Madrid. He subsequently travelled to the United States and ...

Beginning with my great grandmother Cesarea, one of the founders of the town named Placetas in Cuba during the 1860s, women and the roles they have played throughout history fascinat...

We are the Earth is comprised of a photograph, acrylic paint, found objects in nature (bones, leaves, flowers, stones, crystals) and resin. The base materials for the work consist of a wooden paneled canvas that provides the platform for the adhesion of a rolled photographic canvas, a fine art photography print. The canvas print, in this case a double exposure digital photograph, is adhered to the wood using a clear acrylic varnish. Acrylic Paint is added along with the objects that I found in nature, which are all placed in a careful and meticulous fashion, finally cemented in resin. This specific piece of art was my first large scale piece of its kind, created in my studio in Brooklyn in 2019. This piece was inspired by the colors of my travels, the deserts, trees, mountains and sunsets. The human depicted is myself, it is a self-portrait captured in Great Sand Dunes...

Giclée Fine Art Archival Fiber Print, Resin Encapsulated, Custom Double Shadow Box Frame. 24x36” print, 29x41” in the custom frame. Series of 10. Custom size and framing options avai...