Jonathan Ash

I am a colourblind, autistic artist currently based in Medway, Kent, UK. I was born in London and raised in Medway, Kent where, after a few comings and goings, I now reside and work as an acrylic artist. I have a studio in Chatham, Kent, in the Nucleus Arts Centre.

The comings and goings involved time living in Angers and Montpellier, France, and Warsaw, Poland as well as hopping around the UK from Bangor and Anglesey in North Wales to the Isle of Wight and Bristol.

I also run workshops and talks about colourblindness and autism and have had many solo and group exhibitions. I have a global reach with art sold in may different countries.

I have a unique style which is borne out of my lifelong colourblindness; I paint in layers of colour and use the colours to represent the dark and light shades in my painting rather than to use the “realist” colours. As I do not blend or overpaint, my work has a striking and sometimes stark style. It is hand painted, not screen printed or computer manipulated.

I have been commissioned a number of times to produce work based on a local theme and have large canvas work hanging in apartment foyers in Rochester and St. Mary’s Island, Chatham, Kent. I have designed album covers and insert posters for...

As part of a French and Linguistics degree at the University of Wales, Bangor, I studied French Art and Literature from Impressionism to Dadaism and completed a thesis on the art critic and poet, Guillaume Apollinaire.

I also have an NVQ qualification in Art.

SOLO EXHIBITIONS:

2024:
"Journey" display, Rainham Library, UK.
2023:
"Decks and Ducks" display, Rainham Library, UK.
2022:
"Pandrospective" exhibition, Rochester Community Hub Gallery, Kent, UK.
"Figure" exhibition, The Halpern Pop, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"Our Daily Bread" exhibition, Rochester Community Hub Gallery, Kent, UK.
2021:
"Adventure 1"exhibition, The Halpern Pop, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"Adventure 2" exhibition, The Space Gallery, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"Facsimile" exhibition, The Halpern Pop, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"Texture" exhibition, Rochester Community Hub Gallery, Kent, UK.
2020:
"Ten:Fifty" exhibition, The Space Gallery, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"Borstal Boy" exhibition, The Halpern Pop, Rochester, Kent, UK.
"20:20 Hindsight" exhibition, Rochester Community Hub Gallery, Kent, UK.
2019:
"Body:Structure" exhibition, The Halpern Gallery, Chatham, Kent, UK.
Pop-Up exhibition, The China Exchange, Soho, London, UK.
"Mammal" exhibition, Rochester Community Hub Gallery, Kent, UK.
"Surprise" exhibition, WhatIf? Gallery, Dartford, Kent. UK.
2018:
"From Medway To Medway and Back", The Halpern Gallery, Chatham, Kent, UK.