User:ModernImpressions/Constance "Connie" Ash Artist

Connie Ash (artist / sculptor 1951-present) Connie Ash is rising start and a great natural style oil painter and artist calling Whitney, Texas in Bosque County, Texas home. She has had her her Texas themed paintings and art work on tour for some years.

Born in 1951 in Monticello, NY Connie has since made her home in the countryside of Mid Texas. She has spent a lifetime perfecting her art skills specializing in stained glass, drawing and oil painting using a wide variety of mediums materials and techniques. Connie attended the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore, MD. While living in Charleston, SC she sold large stained glass pieces and commissioned art from her studio.

Her work was displayed in numerous juried art shows around central and north Texas in recent years. The work is gaining recognition and collectors interest since being in numerous juried shows. In 2010 at the Bosque Art Club Annual juried art show, Connie placed 3rd out of hundreds of paintings for her oil painting of egrets. Connie is a member of the Bosque Art Center in Clifton Texas and is Vice President of the Bosque Art Club at the Art Center. Several paintings were also exhibited by invitation at the 2009 Art Brazos juried annual art show by their invitation. Her work can currently be found exhibiting at the juried show at The Doss Heritage Cultural Center & Museum in Weatherford, TX and the Brazos Valley Art League. Painting local landscapes and other native Texas subjects, Connie has been working professionally from her private art studio on the shores of Lake Whitney, TX for several years. Although most of her artwork is based in oil paintings, her use of charcoals and graphite drawings are a sight to behold. Her style of art has journeyed away from glass and gravitated toward her longtime of drawing and oil painting in recent years. Her style is realistic with a decided impressionistic flair and she works En plein air or outdoors a lot of the time with finishing work done in studio. She draws her from natural surrounding and outdoors and prefers real life wildlife and landscapes from her surrounding home.

Her more than twenty years of stained glass work included various large commissioned pieces and a wide number of Church windows in upstate New York where she worked during that time. Connie is regularly currently being asked to submit her work to juried prestigios art shows in Texas and her work is growing in popularity year after year.