Kerr Ashmore is a British contemporary landscape and abstract artist whose work has featured in many exhibitions across UK, Europe and further afield and is held in collections worldwide.
Ashmore's work is beautifully aesthetic, often large in scale, and always emotionally powerful. Although there is no doubt that land, sea and sky play a major role in her work, Ashmore's process is both emotive and narrative at once, her compelling and immersive works juxtapose harmonious journeys and instinctively orchestrated moments of light and dark that reach out to share a warmth, evoking hope and a positive strength from even her darkest of pieces. |
"Each aspect of my practice (which is often multi-disciplinary), whether the written word, musical composition or painting drives the other…always in a kind of perpetual motion.
My process more often than not begins with music - it's absolutely fundamental - Nature, poetry and in particular music play a big part...music, for me, is incredibly powerful...I tend to process sound differently to others so music can propel me into stories and journeys on an unconscious level... music takes me on an internal visual and kinaesthetic journey, which often manifests itself into narrative - poetry or prose. It's a method I use to develop and communicate my ideas, notions and internal journeys. At the beginning of a painting session the music is revisited which further inspires colour and form. From there I let go and allow myself certain freedoms to travel through the narrative, to be in the journey itself. Whether I’m working on a landscape or an abstract piece, it’s this emotion that steers me through. A huge notion for me is hope - not that I'm always full of it by any means, but being part of nature as we all are i suppose, I strive for light. Painting and indeed the creative process itself is, for me, a hopeful pursuit. And an inspiration in itself. Somewhere along the way, whilst fully immersed in a particular piece or collection, I feel myself move towards something enlightening. Ultimately towards a sense of calm, of hope. Although often symbolic or representational on a personal level, my work doesn't always depict a particular place or time, rather, I collect moments and experiences, pieces of sky and landscape, emotions and feelings relating to each... I store them inside until they re-surface during my writing or painting process.". Kerr Ashmore |