ABOUT THIS EPISODE
Why would an artist spend years mastering beauty, only to deliberately destroy it?
Internationally exhibited and recognised at the forefront of modern figurative painting and disrupted realism, British painter Ben Ashton combines the techniques of the Old Masters with a radically unconventional approach to painting.
And his latest work takes things even further. Extraordinary, meticulously handcrafted paintings that twist, distort and physically emerge from the wall.
We talk about beauty, destruction, human imperfection, and what happens when AI makes perfection increasingly easy to manufacture.
And what all of this might mean for the value of the human touch.
🎨 Ben's new exhibition, May We Live in Impossible Times, runs 10 October–21 November at Dorothy Circus Gallery, London. Follow and explore his work @benashtonart.
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