Bill Ayton

They are the result of the combination of his interest in visual expression and his wife’s interest in social justice.

The paintings initially existed as drawings and were exhibited in 1991 in England (University of Essex), Holland (Peace Palace, the Hague) and Poland (Jagiellonian University Summer School, Krakow). A series of thirty paintings was then created and shown at the Universal Expo in Seville, Spain in 1992, along with thirty 3-D computer animations displayed on a monitor.

In 1993, the exhibition of paintings was shown at The Palais des Nations of the United Nations in Geneva for the 45th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

The paintings have been used in digital form as illustrations on the Eleanor Roosevelt Foundation’s Website celebrating the 50th Anniversary of the Universal Declaration in 1998.

William T. Ayton was born and raised in Yorkshire, in the north of England. After showing an early aptitude for drawing and painting, he went on to study Fine Arts at Edinburgh College of Art in Scotland. He began exhibiting in earnest in Madrid, Spain where he lived for several years and he met his future wife, Diana. The artist & his family (which now includes their daughter, Sarah) currently reside in Brooklyn, New York. He continues to paint in a figurative style, dealing with the human condition at the turning of the centuries, intertwined with mythological subject matter and more contemporary issues.