MEGAN ASHMAN GALLERY
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GALLERY JOURNAL
JOURNAL
Stories from
the Gallery
Symbolism, hidden images, studio notes, collecting guides, surrealism, dream logic, and the emotional life of original art.
FILTER
The Journal gathers the hidden language of Megan Ashman Gallery — the symbols, processes, dreams, materials, and emotional narratives that move through the artwork. Read about owls, ghosts, eyes, hands, mushrooms, portals, mixed-media process, collecting original art, and the strange intelligence of images that reveal themselves slowly.
THE ARCHIVE
Enter the Stories
Behind the Work
HIDDEN IMAGES
The Strange Intelligence of Hidden Images
A meditation on the figures, symbols, and quiet apparitions that reveal themselves slowly inside layered paintings.
6 min read
The Strange Intelligence of Hidden Images
A meditation on the figures, symbols, and quiet apparitions that reveal themselves slowly inside layered paintings.
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HIDDEN IMAGES
1 entry
ARTIST REFLECTIONS
1 entry
8 min read
Artist Reflections on the Shadow Self
On tenderness, unease, transformation, and the emotional charge of making work from the unseen interior.
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MIXED-MEDIA PROCESS
1 entry
6 min read
Layering Mixed Media Until It Breathes
A look at collage, washes, texture, and intuitive revision as a way of letting an image become itself.
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SYMBOLISM IN ART
1 entry
5 min read
Symbols That Keep Returning
Owls, hands, eyes, mushrooms, flowers, and angels as recurring guides through transformation and shadow.
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DREAM LOGIC & SURREALISM
1 entry
7 min read
Dream Logic and Surreal Composition
Why impossible spaces, symbolic animals, portals, and doubled figures can feel more honest than literal representation.
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STUDIO NOTES
1 entry
4 min read
Studio Notes on Paint, Paper, and Ghost Light
Fragments from the studio: mineral shimmer, found imagery, midnight palettes, and surfaces that hold memory.
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COLLECTING ORIGINAL ART
1 entry
5 min read
Collecting Original Art as a Personal Ritual
How to choose work through instinct, resonance, and the private language a painting begins to build with its collector.
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Full Archive — 7 entries
GALLERY ARCHIVE
Owls
Ghosts
Hands & Eyes
Mushrooms
Angels
Portals
The Shadow Self
Flowers
Dream Realms
Phosphorescent Light
Found Objects
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