Grahame Ashcroft

Merseyside, United Kingdom

About Grahame Ashcroft

My paintings arrive like strangers at the door. I invite them in, get to know their stories. Exterior landscapes, interior landscapes; the seen and the imagined. Perhaps, after all, they're the same thing. They combine observation, memory and imagination, not always in the same proportions. From these basic elements I persuade the images towards some kind of coherence, a process I find fascinating, absorbing and compelling.

Education:

BA(Hons)Fine Art, Manchester, UK 1976-9
PGCE, Liverpool, UK 1979-80
Taught Art at Southport College of Art, UK 1981-1995

Exhibitions:

Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK 1983
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK 1984
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK 1985
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK 1988
Atkinson Art Gallery, Southport, UK 1994
Liverpool Academy of Arts, Liverpool, UK 1994
Hanover Galleries, Liverpool, UK 1996
The View Gallery, Liverpool, UK 1996
Liverpool Academy of Arts, Liverpool, UK 1996
St. Helens Open Art Exhibition, St. Helens, UK 1996
Artways, Liverpool, UK 1996
Castle Park Arts Centre, Frodsham, UK 1997
Dukes Oak Gallery, Sandbach, UK 1997
Der Kauf Park, Gottingen, Germany, 1997
Blackthorn Galleries, Birkenhead, UK 1998
The View Gallery, Liverpool, UK 1998
The Lower Place, Liverpool, UK 2002/2003
Blackthorn Galleries, Birkenhead, UK 2004
Wirral Open Art Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK 2006
Wirral Open Art Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK 2008
Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead 2009
Mere Grange Gallery, St Helens, UK 2010
View Two Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2010
Wirral Open Art Exhibition, Williamson Art Gallery, Birkenhead, UK 2010
Liverpool Academy of Arts, Liverpool, UK 2013
Domino Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2016
Dot-art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2016
Nic Corke Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2017
Dot-art Gallery, Liverpool, UK 2017