We visited
@_ash_roberts in her Los Angeles studio while she was preparing a new body of work for her upcoming exhibition at
@francoisghebaly , presented in dialogue with
@lilyyill .
Ash grew up around landscapes. Her family ran a landscape design business, and early on she learned to recognize the quiet poetry in nature—perhaps unconsciously at first. In these paintings, tide pools become more than sites of observation; they feel like metaphors. Small ecosystems mirroring larger ones. External environments reflecting the internal worlds we each carry.
Her paintings often begin with memory—filtered through nostalgia, longing, and a pull toward the ephemeral. Ash is drawn to fleeting moments of beauty in nature, moments that resist permanence. You sense that in the work: nothing feels fixed, everything feels in flux.
Photos by
@anais.wade
For "Creative Currents" Newsletter by Open Spaces Magazine.
