The Lawson Box is who you call when you need fine artists who understand the intersections of fine art and technology.
The artist will never cease
to have a relationship with tools.
The artist will never cease
to have a relationship with tools.
Ashley Elizabeth Wilson · Founder
Ashley Elizabeth Wilson is a fine artist trained across opera, painting, film, graphic design, and music production. She carries a precision of eye and ear that most projects never get access to. Technology is one tool in the box. The work is the point.
My great-great-grandfather Lawson Andrew Babcock made pochade boxes out of a building by the railroad tracks in upstate New York. He was born in 1880 and lived to 97 — which means he saw everything. Every wave of innovation, every shift in how the world worked, every new thing that was supposed to change everything.
And through all of it, painters still needed a box.
A pochade box is what artists used before studios were a thing — a little hinged case that opens into an easel, holds your palette, goes wherever you go. The form has changed. The materials have changed. But the relationship between an artist and their tools never disappears. It just evolves. The artist is always the voice behind it.
WWI Draft Registration Card · 1918 · Lawson Andrew Babcock
His son Claude apparently loaded dice and held cards for Frank Sinatra and John Wayne. We're still looking into that part.
What I know is that somewhere between the sawdust and the poker table, something got passed down. You build the thing. You take it into the world. You don't wait for permission.
The building is still standing.
The agency is named after an artist's heart in Marathon, New York
and a dedication to American art.
Digital or otherwise, there is an American voice inside of it.
Serious inquiries only.
Tell us what you're building.
Tampa Bay, Florida · By appointment
