All works are museum-quality oils on museum-quality canvas.
Beach Minstrel 1
Beach Minstrel 2
Beach Minstrel 3
Pinski's Travelling Dive Troupe at Pleasure Point Beach
(Oil on Canvas 4.5 metres)
Five minute film of the painting above being made
Wild Bunch Lunch (1.5 metres)
Lagoon Shack (Oil on Canvas 1.3 metres)
Swim at Dusk (1.5 metres)
Opera House from Frangipani Grove
Dive Troupe
Dive Troupe
Swim at Dusk
Dive Troupe with Butterfly
Dive Troupe & Red Wine
Dive Troupe Dream Dimension
Dive Troupe Cocktails at The Race
Lagoon Triptych. Oil on Canvas
Dive Troupe Balloon, Lunch. Triptych
Oscar the Sommelier at Alien Fancy Dress Cocktail Pool Party
Oscar the Sommelier at Flamenco Festival Opening Dance
Seven Valleys (Oil on Canvas 1.4 metres)
Exhibitions
Mall Galleries London
Gelabeart Galleries New York
Neutral Bay Galleries Sydney
Gadfly Gallery Perth
Royal Plaza Ibiza
David Bromfield Gallery Perth
New Collectables Gallery Fremantle
Oscar the Sommelier with Early Arrivals at The Wild Bunch Lunch
(130 x 125 cm)
Painting below is Pinski's Travelling Dive Troupe at Twincreek Lagoon
(oil on canvas 1.21 metres x 2.84 metres)
Currently on display in the VIP Lounge for private jets, Ibizair, Ibiza Airport, Balearics, Spain.
2.5 metre 1/10 Limited Edition Hand-Signed Giclee` Print.
For a viewing, contact Ibizair Admin @ Ibiza Airport.
Press
The Australian
Virgin Inflight Magazine
Canberra Times
Australian Art Collector
The Sydney Magazine
The Age
Wuppertal University
Sunday Times
The Daily Star Dacca
Australian Broadcasting Corporation Book Show
The West Australian
Art Collector Magazine
Good Readings
Art Edit Magazine
Collector's opinion on Ashton's Art
Les & Ann Margulis, major art collectors from Manhattan: A massive collection of ancient Egyptian, Aztec, Mayan, Babylonian and contemporary American and Australian art.
The Les Margulis speech to the crowd at Independence Day Launch Party Exhibition in Sydney.
"I believe Wayne is one of the most significant painters in the contemporary Australian art scene. His work is reminiscent of several world class artists. The first would be Henri Matisse, who broke away from the leading school of French art at the time, which was Impressionism. He was a leader of Fauvism, an early 20th-century movement known for intense, non-naturalistic colors. Critics called these artists les fauves, meaning 'the wild beasts'.
"Wayne, like Matisse, uses colour less to copy reality and more to create emotion, rhythm, visual impact. His paintings often feel vivid and alive. He often reduces figures, interiors, landscapes into flowing shapes and strong outlines. In simple terms: he is well-known for making colour and shape feel joyful, powerful and contemporary.
"The second painter that comes to mind is Amedeo Modigliani who is famous for creating one of the most recognizable portrait styles in modern art: long necks, elongated faces, almond eyes, simplified bodies and a melancholy elegance.
"Similarly, Wayne in a distinctive contemporary style blends influences from Renaissance art, African masks, ancient sculpture, and the Australian avant-garde into something instantly identifiable.
"In short, his work is unique. His portraits look unlike anyone else's. They are elegant, haunting, sensual and immediately recognizable."
Les Margulis on the Salon
July 06, 2026
"In Paris, after WWI ended in the disastrous Treaty of Versailles, an American woman, named Gertrude Stein, held regular soirees in her salon at 27 Rue de Fleurus. These were not just social gatherings but the salon also served as one of the most important meeting places for international artists, writers, collectors, and dealers in Paris.
"These dinners connected painters and writers, such as Picasso, Matisse, Hemingway, and Fitzgerald.
"Stein also collected her guests' canvasses and the novels and she gave both legitimacy that they never would have had otherwise. Hemingway coined the phrase to describe her and his friends as "The Lost Generation"", as he read from his masterpiece, The Sun Also Rises.
"In a similar fashion, soirees held in the working artist and writer's studio of Wayne Ashton, located on the second floor at number 11 Northumberland, has drawn by invisible magnetism, an array of fascinating international intellectuals and Sydneysiders.
"In the sleepy, working class suburb of Stanmore, for more than 20 years, Ashton's parties have drawn the rich and not so rich, the famous, as well as the occasional infamous artist, the mad collector or two, solicitors on the prowl, would be novelists, and Greek poets using the rhyming patterns of their two thousand year old language.
"These parties, chaired by Ashton, became part of the story of Sydney as the capital of modern Australian art and literature post the turn of the new century. It could be said: Heidelberg became Stanmore.
"So, the importance of the gatherings was not that everyone simply had 'a jolly good feed' and chatted over French champers and 50 year old cognac. The truth was that Ashton's parties helped circulate new ideas, validate experimental art, connect major figures, and turn avant-garde Australian modernism into a movement.
"We should raise our tulip glasses to Wayne and Libby in gratitude. Merci Beaucoup."
Les Margulis
