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Ashborne is an anonymous artist creating digital drawings by hand on an iPad. The practice develops from individual lines into trees, forests and cycles. Layered marks, fractured forms and recurring circles explore memory, growth and renewal. The work is presented online under the artist name Ashborne, allowing the images and their evolving relationships to carry the identity of the practice. In Shifting Ground, a series of digital paintings, intense colour and shifting forms transform familiar forest landscapes. Ashborne prefers online written communication for enquiries and collaboration.
About the artist
I draw digital paintings by hand on an iPad, developing individual lines into trees, forests and cycles. In Shifting Ground, forests emerge through intense colour, layered textures and fractured, shifting forms. Recurring circles and contrasting fields of colour connect the works, bringing familiar landscapes into an uncertain balance between growth, dissolution, memory and renewal. I work publicly under the artist name Ashborne and prefer online written correspondence.
Portfolio: https://ashbornecycle.art/
