Ash Fitzgerald is a contemporary full-time painter and printmaker based in South London, specialising in abstract painting, collage and mono printing using oils, acrylic, pigments and raw materials on canvas. His signature style combines colours and textures using a layering process to integrate the tones and create depth. Colours used are at times vibrant and organic, reflecting those of the Southern Hemisphere: oranges, reds, yellows and greens forming abstract landscapes of natural pigments and raw texture.
Ash was born in North London to a Jewish mother and an Irish Catholic father. This cultural diversity appears to have fuelled his creative awareness since conception. His home life brought other influences, too: his mother was absorbed by the theatre and literature while his father was a photographer and a painter. These strands have combined to inform and develop Ash's own artistic style to this day.
During his adolescence, Ash admits that he tended to deny his art and visual language, preferring to seek darker colours in diverse music, but as a mature student he finally succumbed to creative awareness and began to develop his artistic style on a full time basis.
His passion is to continue the development of his skills and retain a sense of openness. One of the ways he achieves this is by exploring the use of atypical media. Ash's early output reflected old manuscripts and artefacts: recycling materials, creating a mixture of paper-based work with textile art and collage-based print, aiming to expose changing forms that take shape with age. More recently, his work has been energised by travels in Jerusalem, Australia New Zealand Canada and America. The structure, environment and history of these vibrant places are reflected in his later pieces.
Ash was born in North London to a Jewish mother and an Irish Catholic father. This cultural diversity appears to have fuelled his creative awareness since conception. His home life brought other influences, too: his mother was absorbed by the theatre and literature while his father was a photographer and a painter. These strands have combined to inform and develop Ash's own artistic style to this day.
During his adolescence, Ash admits that he tended to deny his art and visual language, preferring to seek darker colours in diverse music, but as a mature student he finally succumbed to creative awareness and began to develop his artistic style on a full time basis.
His passion is to continue the development of his skills and retain a sense of openness. One of the ways he achieves this is by exploring the use of atypical media. Ash's early output reflected old manuscripts and artefacts: recycling materials, creating a mixture of paper-based work with textile art and collage-based print, aiming to expose changing forms that take shape with age. More recently, his work has been energised by travels in Jerusalem, Australia New Zealand Canada and America. The structure, environment and history of these vibrant places are reflected in his later pieces.