Designer, Artist, and Teacher

Creative since childhood, Ashley has a formal education in graphic design and has a successful 18-year career designing brands for progressive businesses and non-profit organizations. While obtaining her BFA in graphic design, Ashley congruently studied as many art disciplines as she could handle (i.e. ceramics, printmaking, painting, drawing, three dimensional studies, etc.) leading to her career as an artist.

Experience & Style

Opportunities outside the art and design world have shaped Ashley's experience and style. In the early 2000s she thrived in sales and visual merchandising within retail settings, from boutiques to Walt Disney World. In 2020, she founded an online art shop and her artworks were shown in gallery exhibitions. Ashley has taught graphic design at the collegiate level and now teaches painting classes to the Fort George G. Meade military community and their families.

Ashley's style has been well-informed by travel. Everywhere she looks and in everything experienced, creativity “bookmarks” are logged. As part of the creative process, Ashley pulls from this knowledge for storytelling within brands or artworks.

Outside the Career

​Aside from art and design, Ashley encompasses life with respect and support for others and the natural environment around her. She's an interior design enthusiast and has a keen eye for color, pattern, texture, and space. Ashley is also a yoga practitioner and teaches weekly yoga classes to the military and Department of Defense communities. She loves to cook with fresh ingredients; travels near, far, and often with family; and orchestrates weekly garden parties with friends and neighbors. On a sunny day, you may find Ashley standing barefoot on a patch of moss in the woods behind the house watching the sun dance between limbs of trees.

​Feel free to reach out to learn more.

DESIGN BACKGROUND

While in college, Ashley worked as a graphic designer for the study abroad program and assisted with a literary magazine layout. After completing a BFA in graphic design, Ashley’s career took off at a uniform and promotional fulfillment company in Charleston, SC where she designed custom online fulfillment stores. (Some context: This was during an era when online stores were only available to luxury brands and not a public commodity yet!)

After a handful of years, Ashley moved to Washington, DC where she worked with an advertising agency creating brands and advertising for Maryland home builders, and then with a design agency building branding strategy and designs for positive-impact companies. Ashley has created award-winning work within each company and has been a contract designer since 2016.

ART BACKGROUND & Features

While living in England, Ashley's body of work grew both in style, narrative, and sheer number. Her inspiration comes from the colors and patterns of nature. The art shop opened as a way to share inspiration and her creative processes with others. Ashley has since moved to the Chesapeake Bay area in Maryland where many of her original creative inspirations are still within a short reach. Ashley's artwork can be found in private collections in the USA, UK, and Spain and have been shown in exhibitions.
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Features

08/2020 Peterborough Telegraph article
09/2020 Dayton Daily News Life+ cover and article
09/2020 In Your Area article
10/2020 Centerville City Lifestyle Magazine article

Experience

2024 – Present
Art Instructor; Fort Meade, MD

​2024
Ceramics Classes; Clay Coven in Savage, MD

2020-21
Watercolor Classes; Stamford Contemporary Arts in Stamford, UK

2015
Ceramics Classes; Hills Road Sixth Form in Cambridge, UK

​2006-Present
Graphic Design and Marketing Career

​2005-07
Papermaking
Autopsical Art
Ancient Architecture
Media
Painting
Serigraphy
20th Century Art History
Advanced Printmaking
Graphic Design Topics
Mass Communications

2002-05
History of Art II and III
Drawing: Process and Synthesis
Ceramics II
Graphic Design Principles
Typography
Lithography
Design Form and Content
Media I
Descriptive Drawing
Drawing: System and Color
Photography
History of Art I
Three-dimensional studies

Awards

EMILY's List Donor Brochure - Communicator Awards, January 2016
EMILY's List Donor Brochure - Communicator Awards, January 2014
Linemark Printing Marketing Brochure - GDUSA Award, January 2014
Host Hotels and Resorts Recruitment Brochure - Communicator Award, January 2013
Brookfield Homes DC Website Design - GALA Awards, January 2012

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Want a part in the creative process? Feeling a little cheeky? Consider gifting a coffee ($5). The caffeine supports my creativity and, at times, also washes the paint off brushes (by accident).