• Night Bird

    2023
    Mixed media on canvas,
    cedar float frame

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  • This new series by Ash Wilson systematically explores surrender, mirroring her intentional release of control to let the paint fall where it may. Similar to life's unpredictability, her process welcomes the unforeseen, revealing a beauty beyond expectation.

  • Honest Painting

    Ongoing Series

    2019-present
    Mixed media

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  • Honest Painting is an ongoing project originally inspired by Dieter Ram's design philosophy of Honest Design; which implores one to honour the subject's material, function, and history through visual transparency; Ash began by asking how this approach might apply to painting. The intuitive abstract mixed-media paintings that make up the series, aptly named "Honest Painting", are the outcome of this exploration.

  • Heal to Heal

    2023
    11 x 14 in.
    Mixed media on ink-jet prints

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  • Ash began 2023 by creating a text-based art piece each day, for 31 days.

    In this introspective series, Heal to Heal she combined words and visual imagery, featuring poetry she wrote while struggling with loss, change and chronic illness during the global pandemic.

  • Spontaneous Layers

    2020
    16 x 20 in.
    Mixed media on archival print

    Co-creator: Taylor Roades

  • A collaboration with photographer, Taylor Roades telling their shared story of vulnerability and the creative process. Taylor photographed Ash layering paint on the canvas while she simultaneously layered on clothing. Ash then painted the resulting photos, continuing their meta-like layering through improvisation.

    Read more about the project in the article published by Yam Magazine.

  • Red Cedar Reciprocity

    2021
    48 x 57 in.
    Wood relief print, acrylic, ink and oil
    pastel on paper, metal frame

    Co-creator: Jackie Van der Vlugt

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  • A collaboration by Jackie Van der Vlugt and Ash Wilson inspired by a shared reverence for the unceded Coast Salish land on which they both reside. Jackie’s cross-section print of an already fallen red cedar was then passed to Ash to illustrate its majestic beauty and abundant nature through abstract expressionism.

    10% of this sale was donated to the Ancient Forest Alliance to further support their effort to protect BC’s endangered old-growth forests and to ensure a sustainable, value added, second-growth forest industry.

River & Moss Agate

  • River, 2015
    28 x 14 in.
    Pencil, ink, watercolour on paper
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    River explores the opposing forces of jagged rock and flowing water, highlighting the space that is forged between.

    Rock unyielding, still
    because river flows at will
    beauty is born here

  • Moss Agate, 2015
    15 x 22 in.
    Ink and watercolour on paper

    Moss Agate is inspired by the local gemstone, whose beautiful patterns resembling moss and lichen are a result of impurities and imperfections like minerals, fissures and pebbles.

    "River" & "Moss Agate" were commissioned for Darling Magazine's 2015 fall print issue and shown alongside an article discussing the wage gap in America.

  • Hoops

    2016
    7, 14, 16, 18 in.
    Acrylic and ink on canvas,
    in embroidery hoop

    AVAILABLE: 18 in. + 14 in.

  • Through this series Hoop, I exploited materials
    and motifs, traditional to fine art, then framed each painting in wooden embroidery hoops, traditional to textile craft. I aimed to subvert the historically inequitable value assigned to visual mediums.
    Mediums, which within this historical narrative, are largely associated with either white male artists (painting) or female and indigenous
    artists (textile craft).

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