WEB EXCELLENCE: Painter Ashton Howard

Stumbling across Ashton Howard's website and portfolio, I was struck at first by the photo-realistic quality many of his painting have. But even beyond that, these are truly masterful creations that are just fun to look at. 

Howard also seems to have quite the love of fantasy as you can see from the freaky eye-wave, the "Fish Art" and the Death Wave. I love it all and can't pick a favourite.

"As America diversifies and sprawls, looking for new corners to place its expanding industries and communities, its natural beauty becomes more and more of a commodity, a treasure that is becoming harder to enjoy and in need of advocacy and artistic interpretation.

Just as Remington transposed the beauty of the Western frontier to an eager mythically starved audience, and Wyeth conveyed the simplicity and grandeur of the American spirit etched in an endless landscape, Ashton Howard brings us striking impressions of the peace and tranquility that America's tropics still offer us in an increasingly untranquil world.

Ashton is a son of Florida's gulf coast. He was inspired early on by the light and colors of its lushness, its wide white beaches and its gem like waters. As one of the world's foremost Tropical Artists, he shares with us the overwhelming beauty that the mixture of flora, sand, water and nature will eternally lend the human spirit. For it is still at the tropics edge that man will still find answers."

website: www.ashtonhoward.com

social: facebook & twitter

email: [email protected]

Would ya?!