welcome to Basma Ashworth
I am both a painter and a textile artist. The combination of colour, light texture, translucency and line are central aspect of my work.
My work is always related to the process of painting rather than the image itself. The artwork emerges from the interaction of marks I make on the surface with the colours and textures I use. My relationship with the surface has a major influence on the way I make the work. What I paint has a lot to do with layering and finding paths inside shapes; the colour and lines describe my journeys through life. For example, they illustrate the journey between two very different and yet in some ways similar cultures. The work derives from a combination of being physically in one place and with the memory in another.
I am both a painter and a textile artist. The combination of colour, light texture, translucency and line are central aspect of my work.
My work is always related to the process of painting rather than the image itself. The artwork emerges from the interaction of marks I make on the surface with the colours and textures I use. My relationship with the surface has a major influence on the way I make the work. What I paint has a lot to do with layering and finding paths inside shapes; the colour and lines describe my journeys through life. For example, they illustrate the journey between two very different and yet in some ways similar cultures. The work derives from a combination of being physically in one place and with the memory in another.
