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.

🔵COMING AT YOU FROM OUTTA THE BLUE🔵
Gorgeous people, today we are serving square vibes
The cyanotype era is still reigning supreme, and this piece is manifesting a coastal energy.
THATS ALL
STAY FRESHHHH

HEYYYY YAAAALLLLLLL
latest installment of my blue fascination, and this time we're rocking with branches 🌳🌳🌳
Currently reading a book about trees being smart, so this piece is jamming with my current fascination.

THATS ALL
BYEEEEEEEEEEE

BACK AND BLUER THAN EVER!!! 💙💙💙
The water theme is weaving its way back into my consciousness. The rat that lives in my mind and controls my every action simply wants to swim.
The original photo that I used in this piece is a screenshot from my ow

CYANOTYPES ARE SO BACK!!!!
Long anticipated, and long awaited. My Potassium Ferricyanide, Ferric Ammonium Citrate, Hydrogen Peroxide, and obsession with the colour blue have been released from their prison.

This piece is very water inspired (shocker

WHATS UP!!!!!
Ok, so this one is a little out of season with blossoms all over the place (alongside the last one as well 😳) but I just can't resist a pink and green colour palette 🎨🫶😌.
Also, I've been enjoying using some glass to make all my circ

HEY Y'ALL🌸🌸🌸
Okay so, I meant to post this a WHILE AGO because of springtime blossoms and I love to be thematic. But, I forgot. BETTER LATE THEN NEVER THOUGH!

Keep it Crazay!
BYEEEEEEEEE

🌿Hierophany🌿
WE ARE SO BACK and going crazy with shapes, so don't even STEP to me!
As per, I am all about that foliage, and all about that tracing paper (me🫶tracing paper). Also the original image was in the Peak District 😌

A blurry version is h

☁️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

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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