What themes run throughout your work? Mythology. Human Rights. Life. Death. Imagination. War. The Human Condition. I tend to go for the big picture stuff.
How do you hope your work will affect its audience? I hope it will wake them up.
What sounds influence your work? I like all kinds of music, but I don't think it necessarily influences me that much. Maybe sometimes.
What makes you decide to create your work? I just do it, usually.
Where do your talents lie? In making stuff. Art stuff.
What successes have you had so far? Quite a few. I've been on the Op-Ed page of the New York Times. At the Museum on the Seam in Jerusalem. On a book cover from Cambridge University Press. And so on.
What was the first creative thing that you ever did? I can't remember.
Has anyone taught you how to use your talent better? Life.
What makes you creative? Presumably the same driving force that makes creative people want to create.
How did you get started? I started. I'm still going.
What inspires you? Too many things to mention.
Who inspires you? I like many artists. It's a long list. Some of the influences you can see in my work (e.g. Bosch, Leonardo). Others are more subtle.
What do you do when you are suffering from creative block? Just go ahead anyway. It usually works in the end.
What are you trying to achieve? A metaphysical post-human state of grace. It's not going very well.
Do you collaborate? Yes, I do. I did a book of poetry/art called "Love, War, Fire, Wind' with the poet Eliot Katz. Right now I'm working on a noir project with writer Donald J. Rothschild, entitled "Shadow Bay." You can see it at shadowbaynoir.blogspot.com.
Ignoring money and all of life’s woes, what would you want to be? I'd want to be me, just more successful.
Accepting the need for money and all of life’s woes, what do you want to be? See above.
What’s the most amazing thing you’ve ever seen / heard / experienced? Going to Kathmandu is probably up there.
What do you consider to be the most important thing in life? Life itself.
Who/what is your nemesis and why? Time. He always wins.
Artist Statement: William T. Ayton's work deals with myth, social issues, imagination and the human condition. Art is a means of reaching out to other souls in the hope of finding some kind of connection. There isn't much else to say.
Name://
William T. Ayton
Age://
53
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Artist, Designer Location://
Rhinebeck, NY, United States of America Web Link://
www.ayton.net Blog Link://
billayton.blogspot.com Favourite Website://
www.wikipedia.org
Type of work displayed on Magnus://
Ink drawings/Acrylic paintings
Work:// - Shadow Bay - Prologue
- The Onset of Winter
- Melancholy Colossus
- Madman
- Leda
- Future Human
- Eros & Thanatos Were Lovers
- Empire of Death
- Asleep in the Abyss
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