Ben Ashton is a master of subversion. His art is both beautiful and challenging; a clash of past and future that merges classic techniques with new ideas. He has achieved a style that is at once instantly recognisable, universally relevant and completely personal.
Born in 1983 – to an artist father and a mother who led the creative department of a secondary school – he went on to study Fine Art at Newcastle University before completing his MA at the Slade School of Fine Art in London, in 2008.
Ashton has spent his life studying the Old Masters - he is unrelenting in his efforts to reach the pinnacle of his craft, painting each and every day, with the intent then to distort or even shatter something that has been perfected. (from benashton.com)