Art Project course gallery No. 15

Art Project: Virtual Research Trip – The Ashmolean, Oxford

Our June monthly virtual research trip was at The Ashmolean Museum in Oxford. The world’s first university museum, The Ashmolean was first established in 1677, with the present building housing the collection opening in the 1840s. 2020 is a special year for the Ashmolean as it celebrates the 400^th birthday of Elias Ashmole, who founded the museum.

The museum’s website has a mega 129,000 online records of its collection of artefacts, paintings, sculptures and textiles from all around the world. Some of the artists included in the collection include Ucello, Turner, Goya, Manet, Pisarro and Walter Sickert. At the time of the March lockdown, the Museum was hosting a major exhibition dedicated to the early work of Rembrandt – the Museum also owns a large number of Rembrandt’s etchings which have been touring the UK and Ireland.

Here’s a selection of artwork and prepatory studies made by some of the Art Project course artists taking part in the project.

Look out for another gallery of work coming soon…

Maurice Prendergast – Cat Goddess and Vase Charcoal

Maurice Prendergast – Cat Goddess and Vase Triptych Digital painting

Maurice Prendergast – Statues, Vases And Islamic Cloth Ink with photograph background

Maurice Prendergast – Piranesi at the Hunt Ink on paper

Paula – Seated Buddha, 5th or 6th Century, Nepal. Carved in grey stone schist. (After Standing Buddha in Ashmolean Museum) Oil pastels and pencil on paper

Lynn Laws – Buddhist Art of Ghandara Graphite

Lynn Laws – Urban, after Louis Lozowick, from Cool Modernism Exhibition Acrylic

Lynn Laws – Cascade (influenced by Vase with Waterfall over Rocks by Namikawa Yasuyuko) Acrylic

Chris – Inspiration by Naoko Matsubora Acrylic

Chris – Fun (After A.R. Penck)
Wax pastel

Chris – Fan
Acrylic

Chris – Saddle Back
Pastel

Harriet Hall – Greek Vase Enemies Ink on paper

Harriet Hall – Greek Vase Fashion Ink on paper

Harriet Hall – Camouflage Ink and newsprint on paper

Christie Archer – Striking Lady (Inspired by: Walter Sickert – The Lady in the Gondola) Pastel

Vanda – Blended – based on heads in the sculpture collection
Acrylic on paper

Vanda – Passionflower and Moth – inspired by Lotus Flower and Dragonfly by Ren Xiong
Watercolour, acrylic and ink on paper

Tony Townshend – Outside The Ashmolean Graphite on paper

Jill – Jeff Koons, Ballerina and Balloon Dog Graphite and watercolour pencil on paper

Jill – Ennui. Apologies to Walter Sickert. Boredom in lockdown Media not stated

Jo Melhuish – Portrait inspired by ‘Young Raphael’ family etchings Pen and ink on paper

Jo Melhuish – Study of Rembrandt Self Portrait Pen & ink on paper

JC – Allium seeds (Inspired by textile collection  Ashmolean Museum) Bamboo pen , ink and watercolour on paper

JC – Covid chronicles (inspired by Rembrandt drawings in Ashmolean  and Guardian news paper) Bamboo pen , ink and collage