Normal Has a Place But it is Not Here
Society: Be Yourself
Society: No Not Like That
Grammar is the Difference Between Know Your Shit and Knowing You’re Shit
Sorry, The Life You Ordered Is Currently Out of Stock
This Chapter of My Life Is Invite Only
Maire - Lancewood - Totara
Life is Like A Game of Chess
I Don’t Know How To Play Chess
Therapist: How Would You Say You Learn Best?
Me: The Fucking Hard Way!
Sometimes I Open My Mouth And My Mother Comes Out
Tetris Taught Me That When You Try To Fit In You’'ll Just Disappear
Broken Crayons Still Colour
One Machine Can Do The Work of 50 Ordinary Men
No Machine Can Do The Work of One Extraordinary Man.
Time is Precious
Waste it Wisely
The Brave Men Did Not Kill Dragons
The Brave Men Rode Them
We Wanted to be Adults So Bad, Now Look at us, Just Fucking Look.
The Early Bird Can Have The Worm Because Worms Are Gross And Mornings Are Stupid
Some Drink Deeply From the River of Knowledge
Others Only Gargle
Home is Where the Art Is - SOLD
Carved Pencils - Detail
Fitting In Is Not The Objective - SOLD
Carved Pencils - Detail
The Bumblebee - SOLD
Time Spent Among Trees is Never Wasted - SOLD
Bees Don't Waste Their Time... - SOLD
It Feels Better…. - SOLD
Art Doesn't Have to Match the Couch - SOLD
Sometimes I Colour Outside The Lines - SOLD
The Alphabet - SOLD
I Know Right From Wrong… - SOLD
No Rain, No Flowers - SOLD
The Outside of a Mountain… - SOLD
Carved Pencils - Detail
It Takes Many Years of Hard Work... - SOLD
Ashburn
Ashburn is the husband and wife team of Dave and Megan Ashburn who create ingenious pencil artwork.
Originally developed by Dave over 12 years ago, the hand carving technique has been carefully and precisely honed to a fine art with both Dave and Megan now producing works under the name Ashburn.
Each carved pencil is handmade and unique, and assembled together to make words or sayings. Ashburn artworks have been recognised through a number of awards such as Committee’s Choice in the Taranaki Art Awards 2016, People’s Choice in the Riversdale Art Awards 2023, and finalist in the Parkin Drawing Prize 2024.
Renowned for their selection of humorous - sometimes on the nose phrases, Ashburn create works which both delight and amaze.
In addition to works with their own chosen phrases, Ashburn undertake many commissions where clients choose their own words or sayings to be immortalised in pencil artwork.