"Some artists paint to live, Ash lives to paint. It is not so much an expression as it is a mode of being. The smell and feel of paint as it drips, flows and delineates her intentions across the canvas seduce the release of intense contrast, color, line and form. Process, product and painter combine with a individualized intimacy that is daring in a world of young artists distancing themselves with cartoonish voices adapted from a faceless commercial visual vocabulary. I think she is on to something."

Judy Deaton
Curator of Art & Exhibits
The Grace Museum
Abilene, Texas