A selection of watercolour paintings by Russell Taylor Ashby

                       'Forest'                                                 'Rivington Trees'

            (watercolour on Arches)                    (watercolour on Arches)

"After silence, that which comes next to expressing the inexpressible is music."  

(Aldous Huxley 1894-1963, English writer)

                        'Viaduct'                                     'Still Life: Orange'

        (watercolour on Fabriano)                          (watercolour on Arches)

'House'

(watercolour on Bockingford)

"Music is religion for me.  There'll be music in the hereafter, too."

(Jimi Hendrix  1942-1970)

                     'Deep Forest'                                       'Venice Grand Canal'

            (watercolour on Arches)                        (watercolour on cartridge)

"I think pure rock and roll, good rock and roll, has the same thing that anything that's pure has - and that's honesty.  Unthinking, primal honesty."

(Paul Stanley, b. 1952, Kiss)

'Woodland Scene'

(watercolour on cartridge)

"I've dedicated my life to music so far. And every time I've let it slip and gotten somewhere else, it's showed.  Music lasts.....a lot longer than relationships do."

(Neil Young b. 1945)

'Aerial Perspective'

(watercolour on Bockingford)

"Songs need to have a secret, cryptic, thematic thing about them, otherwise they are just messy, and all over the place."

(Courtney Love, b. 1964, Hole)

'Windy Day'

(watercolour on cartridge)

". . .the blues is for me. It's like a shoe.  You take a number seven shoe, you sure can't wear a size four.  You wear the one that fits.  The blues fits me."

(Muddy Waters 1915-1983, American blues musician)

'River Bank'

(watercolour on cartridge)

"To me the success of any truly great rock song is related to the fact that people who couldn't really communicate in normal ways can quite easily communicate through the mutual enjoyment of rock music"

(Pete Towmsend, b. 1945, The Who)

'Summer Woodland'

(watercolour on cartridge)

"In the end I think of music as saving grace for all humanity."

(Henry Miller 1891-1980)