artist

Ash White is an artist based in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She is a self-taught pyrographer, dried floral designer, an Activities Coordinator at a Retirement Community and a teaching artist with Pittsburgh Center for Creative Reuse, a non-profit that inspires creativity, conservation and community engagement through reuse.

Ash not only loves to wood-burn and craft with dried flowers, but she also loves to immerse herself in many different art mediums including singing and playing acoustic guitar, painting with acrylics, watercolor and gouache, black-out poetry, and photography. Ash holds a Bachelor of Arts degree from Seton Hill University where she studied Music Therapy/Vocal Performance and was a member of Una Voce, an auditioned chamber choir of highly skilled choral musicians. She has been singing and creating art projects for as long as she can remember.

Her distinctive personal style is inspired by flora, nature and magick. Her art can be described as earthy, whimsical, heartfelt and healing, colorful, and grounded in nature.

 Ash is a strong believer in the healing powers of the arts and that everyone has a creative spirit. As the artist explains, "Everyone is an artist, a musician, a dancer, a photographer, a writer. To me, being creative has nothing to do with how good you are at your craft, but if you can feel something when you create. It's about the act of just creating itself or just 'being' in the midst of your art."

Ash hopes that her art inspires you to pick up a wood-burning tool, a paintbrush, an instrument, a pencil, a pair of pruners and tenderly embrace your creativity, your humanness.

 

Photography by Liz Capuano