Hello, I am Dawn Ash. Art has always been a part of my life. As a young child I would watch my Great Grandmother King paint for hours. I had a difficult childhood and was drawn to art, I constantly doodled. I used doodling as a way to escape into my own world at first, shutting out everything. It is a sort of meditation for me. I got in trouble in school quite a bit, I began to listen just enough to understand what was going on. I also had Attention Deficit Disorder and sitting still was torture. Drawing also helped me to focus my attention and keep the fidgeting in check. Fast forward to now, I have gotten better at the drawings I used to do as a child and am figuring a way to incorporate them into paintings to create my own unique style. I have a few ways of using my style and I am always trying out new techniques. Sometimes I plan the painting to begin with and come back in with ink; and other times I just randomly throw down watercolor, see it dry and hang it on a wall and see what images I can pick out in it, then I draw on it to accentuate parts. The drawings are never planned ahead of time, I randomly start drawing in the paint and just go with it. The fun part of my work is the images and representation of images in the drawings. I often draw abstract images and ask what others see in the image. Sort of like a Rorschach test. I really enjoy interpreting other people's creative or emotional response to my work.