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Frances Ashforth
Color of Water 10

2022

About the Item

Frances Ashforth’s spare paintings, drawings and waterbase monotypes reflect the geography and geology of intersecting habitats that she has visited and studied. Land, water, mountains and deserts are what inspire Frances. Her passion for flyfishing and time spent in remote places has allowed her to experience sparsely populated and wild lands across the United States. Ashforth has exhibited internationally, in the UK, Ireland, Denmark & Canada, at venues including: McMaster Museum of Art, Ontario, galleries in Vancouver, BC, Pendle Print Biennial, Lancashire, UK. Cork Printmakers, Cork, Ireland and Fyns Grafiske Vaerksted in Odense, Denmark. Her monotypes have been included in US print biennials in Boston, Atlanta, Wisconsin and Minneapolis as well as The Print Center of Philadelphia. Other small museums have shown her work, The Katonah Museum, Katonah, NY, Bradbury Art Museum, Jonesboro, Arkansas, Sun Valley Museum of Art in Ketchum, Idaho and in August of 2020, at the Boise Art Museum, Boise, Idaho. Her prints have also been shown in NYC at EFA Blackburn 20/20, IPCNY, IFPDA/Printfair, Art on Paper Fair, The Painting Center, Site:Brooklyn, and galleries across New England. Ashforth received a BS in Fine Art from Skidmore College in Printmaking & Drawing and a minor in Art & Architectural History. She also studied Printmaking at the Sir John Cass School of Art in London. Ashforth has been invited to residencies at The Ucross Foundation, Ucross, WY, Playa at Summer Lake, OR, and Apeiron Expeditions Canoe Residency in Northern Maine.
  • Creator:
    Frances Ashforth (1957, American)
  • Creation Year:
    2022
  • Dimensions:
    Height: 11 in (27.94 cm)Width: 13.25 in (33.66 cm)
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  • Gallery Location:
    Fairfield, CT
  • Reference Number:
    1stDibs: LU28612343672

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