JOURNAL
Texture, Memory, and Found Objects in Mixed-Media Art
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Megan Ashman is a Pennsylvania-based mixed-media painter and collage artist whose work transforms memory, emotion, dreams, and subconscious imagery into surreal visual worlds.
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Megan began painting seriously in 2011 and has created over 600 original works since then. Her paintings are rooted in intuition, movement, and discovery, allowing figures, animals, symbols, landscapes, and hidden images to emerge through layers of paint, ink, paper, texture, collage, and found objects.
Her work draws from automatism, veristic surrealism, visionary art, and mixed-media collage, while remaining distinctly her own. Each piece is built as a layered world of color, texture, symbolism, and emotion — often revealing new details long after the first viewing.
Over the years, Megan has exhibited her work, painted live, taught creative workshops, opened Megan Ashman Gallery on Gallery Row in Lancaster, and built a large online collection of original paintings, commissions, and fine art prints. Her work has been published in magazines including Vanity Fair, The World of Interiors, and House & Garden.
Her paintings are created with the belief that each piece carries its own energy and is meant to find the person it belongs to.
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Megan began painting seriously in 2011 and has created over 600 original works since then. Her paintings are rooted in intuition, movement, and discovery, allowing figures, animals, symbols, landscapes, and hidden images to emerge through layers of paint, ink, paper, texture, collage, and found objects.
Her work draws from automatism, veristic surrealism, visionary art, and mixed-media collage, while remaining distinctly her own. Each piece is built as a layered world of color, texture, symbolism, and emotion — often revealing new details long after the first viewing.
Over the years, Megan has exhibited her work, painted live, taught creative workshops, opened Megan Ashman Gallery on Gallery Row in Lancaster, and built a large online collection of original paintings, commissions, and fine art prints. Her work has been published in magazines including Vanity Fair, The World of Interiors, and House & Garden.
Her paintings are created with the belief that each piece carries its own energy and is meant to find the person it belongs to.
"Her paintings pull from the subconscious what most people only glimpse in dreams — revealing a source of surreal truth shaped by memory, emotion, instinct, and creative surrender."
Originally from Lancaster, Pennsylvania, Megan began painting seriously in 2011 and has created over 600 original works since then. Her paintings are rooted in intuition, movement, and discovery, allowing figures, animals, symbols, landscapes, and hidden images to emerge through layers of paint, ink, paper, texture, collage, and found objects.
Her work draws from automatism, veristic surrealism, visionary art, and mixed-media collage, while remaining distinctly her own. Each piece is built as a layered world of color, texture, symbolism, and emotion — often revealing new details long after the first viewing.
Over the years, Megan has exhibited her work, painted live, taught creative workshops, opened Megan Ashman Gallery on Gallery Row in Lancaster, and built a large online collection of original paintings, commissions, and fine art prints. Her work has been published in magazines including Vanity Fair, The World of Interiors, and House & Garden.
Her paintings are created with the belief that each piece carries its own energy and is meant to find the person it belongs to.