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Creating ‘Of Ascendancy’ for my solo show here in London. The stage set for this piece was particularly challenging for my wife as she jumped on a trampoline hidden in the stage set. Hopefully this gives the sense of weightlessness to the figure in the final painting. As always I then used a drawing on paper to figure out the shape of the painting before transferring it onto a hand shaped panel. You can still see this on show at @dorothycircus #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting #oldmastertechnique 04 Nov 2026

IMPOSSIBLE TIMES by Ben Ashton on show at DCG London The lineage of great Baroque illusionism becomes particularly palpable in Ashton’s dialogue with Giovanni Battista Tiepolo, in his vertiginous perspectives and skies pierced by light, where architecture seems to dissolve into air, clouds and ascending bodies. Yet Ashton is not interested in reproducing this language. His question is more elusive: how can painting persuade us of the existence of something we know to be impossible?  There is something in Ashton’s process that recalls the great stage illusionists, for whom wonder was born from an intricate physical reality concealed behind the enchantment. The impossible was not simply imagined. It had to be constructed, staged, rehearsed, so that before the spectator’s eyes it might finally appear weightless. Ashton inhabits the same fascinating contradiction. He does not entrust illusion solely to imagination, nor to the artificial generation of an image. He wants to feel its body, its weight, almost its scent. He constructs it.  In his studio, clouds physically take shape. The characters are raised on scaffolding above his head so that Ashton can observe from life extreme foreshortenings and otherwise inaccessible perspectives. Behind images that appear to defy gravity lies a tangible theatre of suspended bodies, structures, fabricated skies and meticulously orchestrated viewpoints. On view until 21 November 2026 DCG London 35 Connaught Street, W2 2AZ #mayweliveinimpossibletimes #contemporaryartist #londonexhibitions #BenAshton #contemporaryart 31 Oct 2026

IMPOSSIBLE TIMES by Ben Ashton Dorothy Circus Gallery in London presents Impossible Times, the new solo exhibition by Ben Ashton, now open to the public. The title emerges from a deliberate transformation of the celebrated expression “May you live in interesting times”, long and mistakenly attributed to an ancient Chinese curse and popularised in the West in the years preceding the Second World War. Ashton replaces interesting with impossible, reflecting on the cyclical nature of crisis and on that peculiar human condition by which every age, while it is being lived, can seem to push beyond the edge of what had previously been thought possible. It is from this idea of the impossible, not as an exercise of imagination but as an experience capable of unsettling our certainties about the real, that this new cycle takes form. On view until 21 November 2026 DCG London 35 Connaught Street, W2 2AZ #mayweliveinimpossibletimes #contemporaryartist #londonexhibitions #BenAshton #contemporaryart 29 Oct 2026

This is the creation of ‘Overcome’ one of my new series of paintings on show at @dorothycircus . This takes you through the creation of the cloud scene stage set all the way through to the finished painting…..it’s been emotional. If you haven’t been to see my solo show ‘May We Live In Impossible Times’ here in London, you still have some time left! #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting oldmastertechnique 27 Oct 2026

Now Open: ‘Impossible Times’ by Ben Ashton | DCG London Thank you to everyone who joined us for the opening of Ben Ashton’s solo exhibition at Dorothy Circus Gallery London. In May We Live in Impossible Times, Ben Ashton turns to the Baroque its theatricality, pathos, and vertiginous architectures of illusion, to explore the unstable boundary between the real and the impossible. Drawing on art history while embracing distortion, fractured perspectives, and seemingly digital glitches rendered entirely in paint, Ashton creates images in which bodies, draperies, clouds, and architecture appear to slip free from gravity. The exhibition brings together a new Baroque inspired body of work with a selection from his preceding Rococo series, continuing his dialogue with the cyclical nature of history and the ways the past is continually reinvented in the service of the present. On view until 21 November 2026. DCG London 35 Connaught Street, W2 2AZ #BenAshton #MayWeLiveInImpossibleTimes #contemporarypainting #contemporaryart #LondonExhibition 24 Oct 2026

Here is the creation of ‘Cascadia Falls’ one of my new works currently on show in @dorothycircus in London. This shows you a glimpse into the process of this series. From creating the stage set, to mocking the design up on paper, to creating the shape in wood and then finally the finished painting. #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting #oldmastertechnique 22 Oct 2026

A massive thank you to everyone that came to the opening of ‘May We Live In Impossible Times’ @dorothycircus I really love these works spotlit on these blue walls, they really jump out at you! Photos taken by @tiffanylinxx #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting #oldmastertechnique 19 Oct 2026

BEN ASHTON — MAY WE LIVE IN IMPOSSIBLE TIMES Between heaven and earth, between what belongs to the real and what appears to exceed its laws, May We Live in Impossible Times unfolds. In his new solo exhibition at Dorothy Circus Gallery London, Ben Ashton turns towards the theatrical grandeur of the Baroque, challenging the boundaries of perspective, gravity and the possible. Bodies, architectures, clouds and draperies break free from gravity. Behind these extraordinary illusions lies an intricate physical construction: fabricated skies, suspended models and carefully orchestrated perspectives. The impossible is not simply imagined. It is constructed. Through extraordinary painterly virtuosity, Ashton transforms the legacy of Baroque illusionism into a striking reflection on our own uncertain times, where reality itself seems increasingly impossible. Opening tomorrow, 10 October | 6–8 PM Dorothy Circus Gallery London 35 Connaught Street, W2 2AZ On view until 21 November 2026. Discover the exhibition and available works at www.dorothycircusgallery.com #contemporaryart #impossibletimes #friezeweek #contemporarypainting #londonart 09 Oct 2026

This Saturday, we look forward to opening the doors to May We Live in Impossible Times, Ben Ashton’s new solo exhibition at Dorothy Circus Gallery London, with the artist joining us for the occasion. For this new series, Ashton takes the visual language of classical painting and pushes it beyond its familiar boundaries. Figures appear suspended and distorted, architecture shifts, perspectives become vertiginous, and clouds expand into spaces where the usual laws of gravity seem to dissolve. Drawing on the drama and illusionism of the Baroque while reflecting the instability of our contemporary visual world, Ashton constructs images that appear almost impossible. Yet every distortion, rupture and illusion is created through the physical act of painting, through pigment, technique and the artist’s hand. Join us for the Opening Reception this Saturday, 10 October, from 4:30–7:30 pm, in the presence of Ben Ashton. Dorothy Circus Gallery London 35 Connaught Street, London W2 2AZ DM us to receive the exhibition preview. #benashton #contemporarypainting #londonexhibition #contemporaryart #openingreception 08 Oct 2026

Sharing the process of creating this painting ‘ Held Adrift’ that is featured in my solo exhibition ‘May We Live In Impossible Times’ opening at @dorothycircus on Saturday. This shows how the 3D shape and composition was figured out by folding drawings on paper and how that was transferred onto a wooden panel. It was bloody difficult from start to finish #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting #oldmastertechnique 07 Oct 2026

Coming soon at DCG London | Impossible Times by Ben Ashton 10 October – 21 November 2026 Dorothy Circus Gallery London is delighted to present a solo exhibition by Ben Ashton, one of the most compelling and distinctive painters working in Britain today. Ashton is a master of subversion, an artist who fuses evolving technology with self-taught classical techniques to produce work that is at once visually seductive and intellectually demanding, beautiful and fundamentally challenging. Send us a DM to receive the preview list. DCG London 35 Connaught Street, London W2 2AZ #BenAshton #ContemporaryPainting #ContemporaryArt #LondonExhibition #portraiture 02 Oct 2026

Painting the last few paintings for my upcoming solo show at @dorothycircus opening October 10th. #PaintingProcess #PaintingVideos #benashtonart #figurativepainting #oldmastertechnique 25 Sep 2026

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