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Some new drawings. 9x7” #coloredpencil #onpaper

Some new drawings. 9x7” #coloredpencil #onpaper #landscapemedicine #drawing #landscapedrawing #springinnewengland #drawingtherapy

The Green Fence. 28x38” #oiloncanvas #landscapep

The Green Fence. 28x38” #oiloncanvas #landscapepaintingnow #stripedfields #newenglandlandscape #pastoralregression #postimpressionist #fauvepainting

Striped Field. 24x30” oil on canvas. #newenland

Striped Field. 24x30” oil on canvas.
#newenlandlandscape #oiloncanvas #abstractlandscape #yellowpainting #yellowlandscape

Multicultural Futuring Symposium. April 24-25, 202

Multicultural Futuring Symposium. April 24-25, 2023 on the UMass campus. These events will highlight the interconnectedness between Afro and Indigenous Futurisms and their necessary role in promoting social and environmental justice. Featuring three impressive speakers: @bayo_akomolafe @christcornelius @kidcadaver Reception and Gallery Talk Monday 4/24 4-5pm. Panel discussion following from 5-6.15 pm. Tuesday 4/25 3-4.30pm "Becoming Black" Workshop 'offering' by Bayo Akomolafe. Free and open to the public. Location: JW Oliver Design Building Gallery, 551 N. Pleasant Street, Amherst. #afrofuturism #indigenousfuturism #environmentaljustice #designfuture #umassarchitecture #climatefuture #multiculturalfutures #ecofuturism #designbuildinggallery #ecocity #futuring #afroretrofuturism #solarpunk @arkitekcherel

Reworked this one. Last posted Dec 2021. Using #gl

Reworked this one. Last posted Dec 2021. Using #glazing with matte finish to give it more #atmosphere #oiloncanvas 20x28” #landscapepainting #yellowlandscape #warmlight #yellowsky #reflection

Nice to have these back home again. Thanks @ccsu_a

Nice to have these back home again. Thanks @ccsu_artgallery for safely delivering them. And thanks for a great show. @ashleyelizawilliams now I just need a @michele_lauriat in my collection 💚

Woods. Almost done. 22x50” #gouache on paper. Fr

Woods. Almost done. 22x50” #gouache on paper. From a detail of a photo taken in Olympia when I was there in 2008. Wondering how this might look translated into glass. #forestpainting never gets old #oregonforest #enchantedforest #landscapepainting #wishihadmoretimetopaint #forestbathing

Honored to have my work included in this stellar s

Honored to have my work included in this stellar show at @ccsu_artgallery titled #silentspring. Curated by @priyangreen with the amazing artists @ashleyelizawilliams and @michele_lauriat Thank you @ebenkling for facilitating our discussion last night. I was very heartened by all the students and community members who showed up with their great questions and enthusiasm. Also want to thank the team at CCSU who hung the show. Such a great space to bring this work together.

Winter drawings #smalldrawing #coloredpencil #on

Winter drawings
#smalldrawing #coloredpencil #onmywalk #newenglandartist #landscapedrawing #winterdrawing #fieldrows #belonging #backhome

From my last day in Manila. Drawing with my dad. I

From my last day in Manila. Drawing with my dad. In his apartment overlooking Manila Bay. Slides 3-4 = my dads painting from 10 years ago, hanging in the hallway, also an image of the cargo ships in Manila Bay. Some chess. A view. Last slide shows an old oil painting of mine from 1998 called “Canopy” hanging in their dining area. Love you dad. ❤️💚

Last day of my 2-week sojourn in the Philippines.

Last day of my 2-week sojourn in the Philippines. Visiting my 91 year old dad and his wife. Made 4 little drawings and lots of friends. #traveldrawing #littledrawing #coloredpencil #landscapedrawing

Rise through. 22x22” Happy Holidays 🎄❄️

Rise through. 22x22”
Happy Holidays 🎄❄️
#gouachepainting #wintershow @bernayfineart

Rise on. 22x22” One nice thing about the short w

Rise on. 22x22” One nice thing about the short winter days is that I’m usually up to watch the sunrise.
@bernayfineart #wintershow
#wintersolstice #orangesky #gouachepainting #coloredpencil #newenglandlandscape

I’ve been working this canvas for 2 years now. 😵‍💫Think it’s finally done. Part of a new series of yellow fields, inspired by local landscapes. Working with yellow in December makes me feel warmer somehow. Oil on canvas 38x50” #makeyourownsunshine #oiloncanvas #abstractlandscape #yellowpainting #oilglazing #atmospericpainting #landscapegeometry #yellowlight #landscapepainting #newenglandlandscape

Rise. 22x22” #gouache #onpaper heading to show

Rise. 22x22” #gouache #onpaper heading to show @bernayfineart #sunrise #wintersolstice #winterblues #throughthetrees

Lullow 16x20” #gouache and #coloredpencil #onpap

Lullow 16x20” #gouache and #coloredpencil #onpaper I’ve become a #sundaypainter help! #landscapepainting #landscapepatterns #yellowpainting #yellowfield #newenglandartist

Leaning Trees 20x16” #gouache #gouachelandscape

Leaning Trees 20x16” #gouache
#gouachelandscapepainting with #coloredpencil #abstractlandscape #abstractlandscapepainting #newenglandartist #novemberlandscape #newenglandwoods #leaningtrees #painterlylandscape #novembercolors #thanksgivingmood #intowinter #artonpaper

November Ash. 20x16” #gouache #paintingwoods #no

November Ash. 20x16” #gouache #paintingwoods #novemberinnewengland #abstractlandscapepainting

Young Forest 20x16” #gouache #onpaper #coloredpe

Young Forest
20x16” #gouache #onpaper #coloredpencil #landscapepainting #treepainting #newenglandwoods

Vote 🗳 Blue this week!! Remembering Summer #g

Vote 🗳 Blue this week!!
Remembering Summer
#gouache and #coloredpencil 20x16”
#voteblue #votebluetosaveamerica🇺🇸💙 #voteblue2022 #votebluetosavetheearth 🌎 #bluelandscape #landscapepainting #abstractlandscapepainting #gouachelandscape #gouacheandcoloredpencils

Autumn, dusk. #gouache #coloredpencil 20x16” the

Autumn, dusk. #gouache #coloredpencil 20x16” the colors at dusk go all gray and lavender. #edgesoffields #dusk #dusklight #beinglost

Sumac and Golden Rod. #gouache and #coloredpencil

Sumac and Golden Rod. #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper 20x16” #autumncolors #sumac #goldenrod #paintingfall #landscape_today #falling #redlandscape #contemporarylandscapepainting

Yellows. #gouache #coloredpencil 10x10” I’m re

Yellows. #gouache #coloredpencil 10x10” I’m reading Suzanne Simard”s Finding the Mother Tree. Thinking of all the underground networks that connect the living, the dying, and the returning.
#octoberinnewengland #paintingtrees #treespeak #mothertrees

Queen Ann’s Lace. 20x16” #gouache and #colored

Queen Ann’s Lace. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper. From August.
#queenannslace #landscapepainting #summerinnewengland #moodypainting #fieldofflowers #outsidein #wildflowers
Last image had mark on it so I’m posting again #flowerspeak

Call For Work! Paperbark is a print and digital in

Call For Work!
Paperbark is a print and digital interdisciplinary magazine. We believe in the obligations of a livable future nurtured through collaboration across generations and fields of thought. Rooted in stewardship and creative possibility, Paperbark gathers stories of ecologies in crisis — as well as stories of life’s flourishing intricacies.
A core principle of our mission is justice, embodied in the movements of the social, environmental, political, economic, and climate spheres. We support the creative expression and communication of such experiences, and especially encourage submissions from underrepresented communities or voices.
(UMass graduate students are not eligible)
DEADLINE: October 1
How to Submit
https://www.paperbarkmag.org/submissions
(link in bio)
@ashleyelizawilliams @paperbarkmag

Lavender Woods. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpenc

Lavender Woods. 20x16” #gouache and #coloredpencil #onpaper I have a friend who is a gardener, she grows beautiful flowers and sells them at the farmers market in Belchertown. Her flowers business is called @thelavenderwoods This painting made me think of her. #lavenderwoods from a hike with @lisallindgren5 to the #summithouse in August. #landscapepainting #paintingwoods #forestpainting #trees #forestbathing #treespeak

Tree canopies are one of my favorite subjects. The

Tree canopies are one of my favorite subjects. They have so much depth and light. Overlapping shapes and layered geometries. Just finished these two paintings commissioned by a Maine collector who was inspired by looking at the trees above him in a hammock. I know this inspiration so well. All the current research into how trees communicate with each other through fungal networks underground is so exciting. Sometimes it seems as if trees have a special kind of sign language they communicate from above ground too. Perhaps in trying to paint and draw trees we can begin to decode that language. To understand what kinds of meaning are enbedded in the gestures of trees. #treelanguage #gouache and #coloredpencil on paper 20x16” #theoverstory #birchtrees #landscapepainting #drawingtrees #treecanopy #treekin #interspeciescommunication #thelanguageoftrees #leaves #listentotrees #treeglyph #treespeak

I’ve never seen Mount Pollux so dry before. It’s been so hot. We need rain…. Bird cloud, please send rain!
#droughtinnewengland #birdcloud #needrain #landscapedrawing #smalldrawing #coloredpencil #summerlight

August 16. #watercolor and #coloredpencil on paper

August 16. #watercolor and #coloredpencil on paper 7x9” from recent #sailingtrip to #marthasvineyard view of #oakbluffs at #dusk
#eveninglight #landscapepainting #landscapedrawing #drawingjournal

Week long sailing journal. Mixing some #watercolor

Week long sailing journal. Mixing some #watercolor with #coloredpencil listening to #ulysses on audible- a dreamy and bewildering companion to our vacation cruise around #marthasvineyard and the #elizabethislands Gearing up for another semester while savoring the last days of #summerinnewengland

#travelsketch #sailingandpainting #drawingaday #oceandrawing #sailinginnewengland #seascapepainting #jamesjoyceulysses #oceantherapy #sailingkitty #sabresailboat

Retired Orchard. Gouache and colored pencil on pap

Retired Orchard. Gouache and colored pencil on paper. 20x15”

#acrylagouache #landscapedrawing ##oldappleorchard #coloredpencil #drawingtrees #appletrees #wildrosevine #invasiveplants #invasivevinesareprettysometimes #morninglight #augustinnewengland

Dead apple tree with vines and milkweed. Morning m

Dead apple tree with vines and milkweed. Morning mist. Gouache and colored pencil on paper. 20x15”

#acrylagouache #landscapedrawing ##oldappleorchard #coloredpencil #drawingtrees #appletrees #wildrosevine #invasiveplants #invasivevinesareprettysometimes

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