ASH MYERs BIO

Illustrator, Fine Artist & Content Creator.

Ash Myers is a professional fine artist & illustrator with a skillset that spans across several mediums. Her work focuses on themes of female empowerment & mental health. These pieces often contain her own poems and writings collaged or written directly onto the artwork. Ash has developed an advanced ability with photorealistic portraiture, and often combines this skill with abstract elements to create bold, colorful acts of art. Her abilities include advanced skills in colored pencil, graphite, ink, charcoal, digital painting, acrylic paint, and acrylic spray paint. Ash actively documents her making process, regularly filming tutorials, speed drawings, vlogs and inspirational content for other creatives that she shares to her growing social media audience.

Ash’s love for art began as soon as she could wield a pencil. To her mother’s horror, she used the bedroom wall as her first canvas. From a young age, Ash could most often be found surrounded by a series of scribbly animal sketches and writings that she’d staple together into books. Art remained a happy way to spend her idle hours, until age 15, when a teacher’s encouragement inspired the pursuit of art as a real career. Creating quickly became an outlet to channel the strain of a turbulent home life.

Despite growing up in an idyllic suburb, the artist faced immense tragedy and personal loss throughout her teens. As she drew late into the night, refining her skills, her younger brother was confined to his bed, slowly succumbing to a rare illness. Round-the-clock nursing care converted the peace of home into the sterility and fear of a hospital setting. Family finances, joy and ease became scarce resources. This experience would later shape Ash’s desire to enter the health care field, and use art to heal, educate and uplift others.

Though photorealism is now featured heavily in her work, Ash initially struggled with basic realism concepts as a young artist. She devoted her teen years to learning how to develop this elusive skill. Portraits in particular were her weak point, until at the age of 19, she drew a portrait for her brother’s funeral. After two agonizing weeks of immense trial and error, she had cracked the code to life-like drawing. This event lead to the development of her early process for drawing faces.

Ash attended Tyler School of Art in 2011 on a portfolio-based scholarship, and left to pursue her creative path independently. Prior to being a full time creative, Ash worked in the fields of sales, real estate, hospitality and graphic design. She is currently in school working towards her BSN, to combine her love of art with her belief that each person should work to contribute to the betterment of society. She is a life-long learner of her craft, and her ultimate goal is to continue to run her art business full time, while helping others heal through nursing and art therapy.