Kay Ashton

Artistic background

Kay Ashton is an award-winning artist celebrated for her realism, particularly in oil and acrylic painting. With a professional career spanning fifteen years, her work has been featured in numerous art publications, including Artists & Illustrators magazine. In 2024, she was a finalist in The International Artist Magazine for her still-life painting, "Rosemary’s Baby."

While Kay’s realist artworks showcase technical precision and patience, her abstract and floral pieces reveal a more expressive and intuitive side to her practice. In these works, she embraces spontaneity and imagination, allowing the painting itself to guide her creative decisions. This process is one of freedom and joy, producing art that she hopes resonates with viewers on an emotional level.

Free from formal artistic constraints, Kay has followed a deeply personal and organic creative path. Her evolving body of work reflects a balance between structure and freedom, skill and instinct; each piece a testament to her passion for exploration and the pure joy of painting.