ARRON CRASCALL · 2022 · SIGNED LIMITED EDITION · 20/76
This piece entered the collection at the same art show where we discovered our two signed Churchill works.
But Air Max Ballet couldn't be more different.
Against a sea of pink, turquoise, black and white, a ballerina appears almost suspended in the middle of the chaos.
And that's what initially drew me to it.
Ballet is about discipline.
Precision. Control. Repetition. Years spent perfecting movements until something incredibly difficult appears completely effortless.
Arron's world is almost the opposite.
Paint runs.
Colours collide.
Lines cross one another.
Nothing appears restrained.
And yet, somehow, putting those two worlds together works.
The ballerina doesn't disappear amongst the disorder. She seems to rise out of it.
There's something beautiful about that.
Because life rarely gives us the perfect background.
It's messy. Noisy. Unpredictable. Sometimes completely chaotic.
Yet amongst all of that, there can still be movement.
There can still be expression.
There can still be beauty.
And that's probably what I see in Air Max Ballet today.
Not simply a dancer.
I see somebody maintaining their form while everything around them appears to be moving in a hundred different directions.
Perhaps Arron saw something completely different when he created it.
That's the point.
The artist creates the work.
We bring our own lives to it.
Purchased alongside our Churchill editions, Air Max Ballet became another of those pieces we weren't necessarily looking for when we arrived at the show — but knew we wanted once we'd seen it.
Signed by the artist and numbered 20/76, it now forms part of the Beyond the Originals section of The Allun Lewis Collection.
Arron Crascall
Air Max Ballet
2022
Giclée print on archival smooth fine-art paper
Approx. 69.9 × 50.2 cm
Signed Limited Edition
No. 20 of 76
ARRON CRASCALL · 2022 · SIGNED LIMITED EDITION · 20/76
This piece entered the collection at the same art show where we discovered our two signed Churchill works.
But Air Max Ballet couldn't be more different.
Against a sea of pink, turquoise, black and white, a ballerina appears almost suspended in the middle of the chaos.
And that's what initially drew me to it.
Ballet is about discipline.
Precision. Control. Repetition. Years spent perfecting movements until something incredibly difficult appears completely effortless.
Arron's world is almost the opposite.
Paint runs.
Colours collide.
Lines cross one another.
Nothing appears restrained.
And yet, somehow, putting those two worlds together works.
The ballerina doesn't disappear amongst the disorder. She seems to rise out of it.
There's something beautiful about that.
Because life rarely gives us the perfect background.
It's messy. Noisy. Unpredictable. Sometimes completely chaotic.
Yet amongst all of that, there can still be movement.
There can still be expression.
There can still be beauty.
And that's probably what I see in Air Max Ballet today.
Not simply a dancer.
I see somebody maintaining their form while everything around them appears to be moving in a hundred different directions.
Perhaps Arron saw something completely different when he created it.
That's the point.
The artist creates the work.
We bring our own lives to it.
Purchased alongside our Churchill editions, Air Max Ballet became another of those pieces we weren't necessarily looking for when we arrived at the show — but knew we wanted once we'd seen it.
Signed by the artist and numbered 20/76, it now forms part of the Beyond the Originals section of The Allun Lewis Collection.
Arron Crascall
Air Max Ballet
2022
Giclée print on archival smooth fine-art paper
Approx. 69.9 × 50.2 cm
Signed Limited Edition
No. 20 of 76
