Grace Exley

Fine Artist with with graphic leanings. Graduate MA @Royaldrawing & BA @TheRuskin.

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Sketch made at the Pitt-Rivers museum, Oxford.

#pencilsketching #pittriversmuseum

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Doodling.

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..More sketching from paintings at the Ashmolean museum…

..plus a brown filter

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An unfinished sketch of a painting in the Ashmolean museum.

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Abstraction. From a drawing I made in the botanic gardens in Singapore.
#abstractart

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From a drawing I made in the botanic gardens in Singapore.
#tropicalplants #singaporebotanicgarden #plantart #jungleandgeometry

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Botanic Geometric #3, based on 'Jade Vine'.
#geometricart #jungleandgeometry

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Geometric design based on a colour palette from one of my botanic drawings, 'Cacti'.
#jungleandgeometry #geometricart

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'Cacti' drawn at the Oxford Botanic Garden, in the Arid House.
@PlantArtGallery #plantart #cactusart #oxfordbotanicgarden @oxfordbga

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A geometric design, based on the colour palettes of my drawings of botanic scenery
#jungleandgeometry

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I drew this in the tropical glasshouses at the Botanic Garden in Oxford.
#tropicalplants @oxfordbga #plantart @PlantArtGallery #oxfordbotanicgarden

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Etching. From a comic book I made. #comicbookart #etching

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This is an illustration I did for a story I wrote once about a fetishistic shoe maker. The story was called ‘Apparatus Excitatis’ and it was, by all accounts, pretty awful, but the pic is a keeper.

#futurism #deusexmachina #silkscreenerotica

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'The Three Stooges'. Drew these funny chaps at the Museum of Natural History in Oxford.

#pencilonpaper #animalskeletons #threestooges @morethanadodo

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Sketching people out and about...

#charcoalonpaper #quicksketch #observationaldrawing #outandabout

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Sketching people out and about...

#pencilonpaper #quicksketch #outandabout #motherandchild

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Sketching people out and about...

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My charcoal portrait of Dianne Regisford, also known as D-Empress. Dianne is an international artist, a natural born poet, a gifted politician, an energetic and charismatic spirit and currently one of Oxford's Green Party councillors. Go Dianne!

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And now for something completely different. 'Exotic Dreamscape (The Diver).

#dreamscape #pencilonpaper #surrealistlandscape

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Roman Emperor Caligula would be horrified to know that he is remembered today by that name. His real name was Gaius. 'Caligula' was his infant nickname, meaning "little boots", and was given to him because his father, who was a general in the Roman army, used to dress his little