Description: Jania Ashby's marble sculptures are inspired by a life lived abroad, influenced by the cultures of Singapore and the Mediterranean finding themes drawn from the sea, masks, dance, abstraction
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Sculpture ~ creating a problem to solve in stone
To reflect on my work I must look to my travels and my experiences of living abroad. Resonating the various cultures to which I have been exposed, I have chosen an eclectic range of subjects. If there is a thread to be found most likely it is not always a conscious one. I have lived on a city-island and at other times near the sea; therefore, the marine themes. I have looked to the arts for a meaning of life; therefore, the masks, the dance shoes, the organic abstracts. Other inspirations come from reaction
With no formal training in stone sculpture, anything I have accomplished has come directly from working in the marble yards of Pietrasanta with the Italian artisans. My debt to them is enormous.