Harry Mayston

Hello! i am an artist currently located in Nottinghamshire, currently focusing on the human relationship with ecology and the natural world.

plz look at my work and love me.

☁️The Horrors Persist, Yet I Remain Slightly Blurry☁️
Okay so, this is a little experiment! I've been using the pattern of leaf-dappled light to do some overlays (but don't worry, I shall be returning to my circles soon)🌿🤪🌿
Once again, the sweet,

BUCKLE UP PEOPLE! ☘️🌱☘️
The blurry train has truly departed the station, and is chugging at full speed babey! 🚂🚃🚃💨
This is another tracing paper piece, and the original photo was of some leaves which, of course, have been completely obscured 🌱?

☁️YOUR EYES DO NOT DECEIVE YOU, SHE TRULY IS BLURRY, AND DREAMY☁️ (Intentionally so lmao)

This, ladies and gentlemen, is a bit of a rogue one. Instead of regular paper, I am using (at this point my signature material) TRACING PAPER (🚨Sound the ala

BACK AND BETTER THAN EVER!!!!
Hello and welcome back my darling angels 😇
So this piece has ruined my posture and blistered my fingers. There are truly SO MANY layers of paper going on here BUT ITS ALL WORTH IT BABEY🤘😌🤘
Okay so this piece is calle

RING THE BELLS!!! 🔔🔔🔔
Fancy meeting y'all here 😌 okay so you wouldn't believe the amount of photos I have had to take to get a nice and delicious image of this crazy and cooky piece. Also a mysterious blue fingerprint has emerged on the top of th

HOWDY!!!🤠
Okay so this piece has been brewing for a while, mainly because I kept on noticing little pieces of dust in the photo but they have now been exterminated 😌

PIECE INFO: The original photo is from Attenborough nature reserve, and I took it

WHAT'S UP PARTY PEOPLE!!!!!
Fun trivia: This piece has been trodden on 🫰😌. Luckily a heavy book and just a delicate kiss better fixed it right up.

Okay so like actual piece info: The main image is a whole mishmash of watery photos layered on top o

WE MEET AGAIN!
Welcome back my beautiful cherubs! This is the latest installment of my paper escapades, and SHOCKER not a cyanotype!

Other News (yes I am using captions as a notice board):
I have made a whole second art account for the stuff that I

HI Slays 🫰😌.
A CYANOTYPE but this time I have chewed through the paper myself, with the utmost precision and the finest of teeth. 🦷🦷
Keep it hot 🫵😌

WAZZAPPPP!! right so it's been a whole week since the vessels exhibition ended, and now that I've ripped everything off the walls and filled the bite marks I gnawed into the plaster, I wanted to share photos of the whole exhibition and the INCREDIBLE

A CLOSE UP! INNIT LOVELY
feast your eyes people

BLUE THINGS!!!!
Hello gorgeous and devious people, this is ma piece on display at the surface gallery along with some really bite-worthy (positive) art🤘😌🤘
Thank you to the hot people who have come to see it already, and if you haven't the exhibit

HELLO HOT AND GORGEOUS PEOPLE! I shall be exhibiting some gorgeous and devious work @surfacegallery between the 4th-18th of November, opening night 6-9pm on the 3rd!!! The exhibition is called 'Vessel' and there is gonna be some really slay work show

The blue bit is in the shape of a bean and there is nothing I can do to stop it

This sexy mama is here for a fun time not a long time as I now know this batch of ink will fade to oblivion when I turn my back for too long. #LongLiveTheCabbage

Selected Exhibitions

Surface Gallery

As part of surface gallery's EM23 residency i exhibited my piece Blue Things, comprising of 72 individual cyanotypes, focusing on the sensory and psychological relationship between humans and water.

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Loughborough SDCA Degree Show

Here I exhibited Folisthesia, a piece made up of 6 large sheets of paper suspended in Loughborough university’s fine art main gallery. focusing on organic patterns, the work displays repeated cellular and morphic shapes. All ink used was hand made, using red cabbage, and saffron ink, as well as lemon juice to alter the pH and colour.

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