Artist Statement

Originally from California and now based in St. Petersburg, Florida, I am an abstract artist whose work is rooted in expressive, sensory-driven painting. After a 15 year career in corporate finance and government contracting, I shifted into a full time creative practice following my 2021 diagnosis of autism and ADHD. That transition led me to fully embrace a visual language that reflects the way I uniquely perceive and process the world.

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My work explores perception, emotion, and energetic movement through layered textures, fluid forms, and immersive color. As a synesthete who experiences sound as color, I translate music into visual compositions- capturing rhythm, frequency, and emotional tone through acrylic painting. Each piece becomes a physical expression of something intangible: a moment, a feeling, a vibration.

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I’m deeply inspired by music, nature, weather patterns, animals, and intuitive, spiritual awareness. These influences often appear as atmospheric movement, organic flow, and cosmic like expanses- blending grounded, earthly elements with something more ethereal and unseen. I’m drawn to the tension between chaos and harmony, control and surrender, structure and flow. Painting becomes a process of navigating that space, of listening, responding, and allowing the work to reveal itself.

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Creating is both instinctive and intentional for me. It’s a nonlinear process that requires patience, trust, and sensitivity to subtle shifts in energy. I approach each painting as a conversation between sound and silence, movement and stillness, internal experience and external form. Through layering and refinement, I work toward capturing the exact energy I feel, even when it’s difficult to define.

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::Studio Soundtracks::

EDM & Ashley McBryde