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Mixed Media Paintings & Collages by Megan Ashman Art, Fine Art, Prints & Custom Art for sale in Reading Pennsylvania. Surreal, abstract, emotional dreamscapes on canvas. Artwork with found objects, hidden images, portraits, animals, eyes, hands, owls, birds, horses, nature, seascapes & more! PORTFOLIO View all Artwork VIEW PEOPLE & PORTRAITS Human figures as landscapes of feeling. Each face is a palimpsest of memory — tenderness layered beside fracture, vulnerability held inside stillness. These portraits do not capture likeness; they reveal the interior: the unspoken tension of becoming, the tremor beneath the gaze, the histories carried quietly in the body. The figure becomes a site of negotiation between shadow and illumination, identity and dissolution. Presence here is intimate, unguarded, and quietly radiant. VIEW Nature Land, water, sky, and growth are not environments here — they are states of consciousness. Mountains rise like held breath; oceans collapse inward like memory; forests hold entire histories in their shadows. Each landscape is a psychic interior rendered through the living world. Nature becomes a place where time feels layered — where past selves return like seasons, where grief moves like tides, where renewal is slow but inevitable. These works speak of the earth as witness, and the self as something shaped by climate, weather, and quiet light. VIEW Abstract & Concepts Form stripped to essence. Gesture, texture, and color become the only language — direct transmissions of thought and impulse. These pieces operate like emotional weather: transient, atmospheric, felt before understood. Meaning is not pointed to; it rises. The abstract works are what remains when narrative dissolves — sensation, rhythm, presence. VIEW Places & Spaces Architectures of memory and liminality — where cabins dissolve into church steeples, where physical doors open to subconscious realms. These works reconstruct space as psychological threshold: windows that reflect instead of reveal, staircases that spiral into collective memory, walls papered with fragments of forgotten text. The places depicted are not locations but reverberations, sanctuaries half-remembered, dream-rooms entered before waking fully. Space behaves like emotion — layered, haunted, intimate, and permeable. VIEW Animals & Insects Instinct rendered as presence. This collection treats animals as emissaries of subconscious knowledge — not subjects to be observed, but mirrors that reveal what the human mind forgets. Feathers, fur, bone, and breath become symbolic architecture: the owl as nocturnal memory, the horse as velocity of spirit, insects as microcosmic engineers of decay and renewal. These beings appear as thresholds — guides who move between realms of shadow, intuition, and ancestral knowing. They speak a language older than speech, and the viewer recognizes it without realizing why. VIEW Emotion & Themes Emotion as architecture — constructed, layered, deconstructed. This collection makes the invisible visible: how grief fragments, how joy expands, how memory loops and reforms itself. Surfaces accumulate like sediment, gestures echo, edges blur into one another. These works hold the complexity of mixed states — solace within ache, clarity within confusion, transformation inside rupture. Nothing is simplified. Everything is held. VIEW Elements & Seasons This collection traces emotional experience as cyclical force. Elements behave like moods: fire as revelation, water as surrender, air as thought in motion, earth as the weight of knowing. The seasons stand as psychological thresholds — winter as stillness before awakening, spring as cautious reemergence, summer as saturation of presence, autumn as release into memory. Each piece maps the internal world through the shifting architecture of the natural one. Nothing is static; everything is moving, dissolving, becoming again. VIEW Psychedelic & Surreal A theater of altered perception, where reality folds and recomposes itself. Here, the subconscious speaks in symbol: hands that multiply, eyes that watch from nowhere, colors that vibrate beyond ordinary spectrum. The logic of waking life dissolves, replaced by dream-structure and internal cosmology. These works do not ask to be interpreted — they are felt like sensation, like déjà vu, like remembering a place one has never been. VIEW Spirit & Dreams This collection exists at the edge of perception — where spirit is sensed as presence, vibration, residue. Figures appear like echoes; symbols hover like breath; light moves as if remembering where it came from. The veil between worlds thins. These works explore the continuity between living and remembering, between the seen and the sensed, between body and its luminous shadow. Nothing is final — everything is transition. VIEW

Megan Ashman I’ve always lived between worlds—the seen one and the one that breathes just beneath it. Since I was young, I sensed stories in silence, images layered behind ordinary moments. Art became the way I translated those unseen layers into something others could feel. I create to understand myself, to process memory, to turn the messy, beautiful weight of being alive into something meaningful. My work comes from intuition first—collage fragments, textures, old pages, pigments and symbols—pieces of history layered into dreamlike environments. In those layers, I find echoes of memory, subconscious emotion, spiritual archetypes, and the quiet truths we don’t always speak aloud. My paintings are portals. They reveal things slowly. They invite you to look twice—to see the figures forming in the shadows, the symbols emerging from the texture, the hidden story waiting beneath the surface. I believe the subconscious has its own language, and art is where it speaks most clearly. I create because there are worlds inside me that insist on being seen. Because healing is a process of reimagining. Because beauty is a form of survival. Because art is how I remember who I am. This is my story, but the moment you see yourself inside the work— it becomes yours, too. Anmelden