This site is a showcase for the work of Arlea Ashcroft.
For commissioned work, pricing details or more information, please contact the artist.
info@arleaashcroft.com
Arlea Ashcroft is a self-taught visual artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her strong command of line, composition, and colour lends her work an illustrative nature. While the changing light of day is the foundation of all her paintings. Ashcroft is a stylistic chameleon who depends on her paintings to inform the medium and style. From Cartoon-like to realism and oils to pastels she waits for the painting to speak to her and guide her hand over the canvas in the form it calls for. Each work develops as a process of listening, waiting and working, delving through memories and soundscapes in which the subject defines the style it is meant to be.
'I'm just trying to keep myself amused." - Ashcroft
She has worked in the Film and Stage Arts of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the past 17 years. She has earned her living ‘painting with light’ working in film as a Lighting Technician. And spent two years traversing the planet as Gaffer on The World’s Greatest Spas. Always evolving, she has multi-tasked her creative journey into one as a Writer, Director, Actor, Graphic Artist, Fine Artist, Photographer, Videographer, and as a literally screaming Guitarist with her punk band SHRIMP.
Arlea has had 45 illustrations tour with the Fringe show Hedwig and the Angry Inch, from Manitoba, to England, Scotland and Italy. Her oil paintings have been displayed at Ace Art in the Winter Warmer show, The Winnipeg Art Gallery Studio Show, The Gas Station Theatre as part of Girls! Girls! Girls! years 1,2,3, and 4 The Accidental Art Show, and with The Young Village Artists show at Medea Gallery. She has also stepped into the world of dance, collaborating with TRIP Dance Company as an artist and performing videographer in Let It All Come Down. Tonight.
Arlea Production Designed The Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards,for 2006, which was broadcast live on APTN. Her illustrations can be found published in four issues of SubTerrain, an international literary magazine out of Vancouver. She has written articles for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers magazine which appeared in both the May and June 2007 Editions as a 2 parter.
Recently Arlea has stepped back into the world of film Directing two shorts for the WNDX Festival of Underground and Avant Garde Film Super 8 - 1 Take Events with her partner in crime Andrew von WIchert. The first film SNAPPERDOODLE was invited to THE IMAGES FESTIVAL in Toronto for April / 08 and she received a Canada Council grant to attend the presentation of this film. Arlea has completed post on two more films, DEAD MOTHERS AND KITCHEN FLOORS and DRUNKEN LOVE POEM which will be making the festival rounds soon.
For commissioned work, pricing details or more information, please contact the artist.
info@arleaashcroft.com
Arlea Ashcroft is a self-taught visual artist based in Winnipeg, Manitoba. Her strong command of line, composition, and colour lends her work an illustrative nature. While the changing light of day is the foundation of all her paintings. Ashcroft is a stylistic chameleon who depends on her paintings to inform the medium and style. From Cartoon-like to realism and oils to pastels she waits for the painting to speak to her and guide her hand over the canvas in the form it calls for. Each work develops as a process of listening, waiting and working, delving through memories and soundscapes in which the subject defines the style it is meant to be.
'I'm just trying to keep myself amused." - Ashcroft
She has worked in the Film and Stage Arts of Winnipeg, Manitoba, Canada, for the past 17 years. She has earned her living ‘painting with light’ working in film as a Lighting Technician. And spent two years traversing the planet as Gaffer on The World’s Greatest Spas. Always evolving, she has multi-tasked her creative journey into one as a Writer, Director, Actor, Graphic Artist, Fine Artist, Photographer, Videographer, and as a literally screaming Guitarist with her punk band SHRIMP.
Arlea has had 45 illustrations tour with the Fringe show Hedwig and the Angry Inch, from Manitoba, to England, Scotland and Italy. Her oil paintings have been displayed at Ace Art in the Winter Warmer show, The Winnipeg Art Gallery Studio Show, The Gas Station Theatre as part of Girls! Girls! Girls! years 1,2,3, and 4 The Accidental Art Show, and with The Young Village Artists show at Medea Gallery. She has also stepped into the world of dance, collaborating with TRIP Dance Company as an artist and performing videographer in Let It All Come Down. Tonight.
Arlea Production Designed The Aboriginal People’s Choice Awards,for 2006, which was broadcast live on APTN. Her illustrations can be found published in four issues of SubTerrain, an international literary magazine out of Vancouver. She has written articles for the Canadian Society of Cinematographers magazine which appeared in both the May and June 2007 Editions as a 2 parter.
Recently Arlea has stepped back into the world of film Directing two shorts for the WNDX Festival of Underground and Avant Garde Film Super 8 - 1 Take Events with her partner in crime Andrew von WIchert. The first film SNAPPERDOODLE was invited to THE IMAGES FESTIVAL in Toronto for April / 08 and she received a Canada Council grant to attend the presentation of this film. Arlea has completed post on two more films, DEAD MOTHERS AND KITCHEN FLOORS and DRUNKEN LOVE POEM which will be making the festival rounds soon.
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