Ashley Biddiscombe
Ashley is a self-taught artist from Kitchener-Waterloo, Ontario who has a passion for figurative and abstract art.
At a young age Ashley found her lifelong passion in horse back riding, which led to an 18-year career as a Therapeutic Horse Back Riding Instructor.Teaching people with various disabilities helped broaden Ashley’s thought process into a more creative and abstract way of seeing the world around her.
In 2016, Ashley and her wife adopted two children with disabilities. Learning how to adapt to various situations and having to create inclusion for her children has helped further foster Ashley’s thought process into a more abstract way of seeing skills and processes develop which has transferred into her painting style. Her memoir Only the Strong Survive was published in 2023, a memoir about her journey with infertility, adoption, and parenting children with disabilties.
The “Woman Series”, an acrylic paint series started in 2019. It was originally a self reflection project, however during this reflection and knowing so many women over the years with disabilities, infertility, cancer and other various personal stories, she decided to expand the series, which now has over 30 paintings expressing the deeper layers of women’s emotional, sexual, and psychological being. This series hopes to create empowerment, encouraging woman to take back their own sexuality and inner strength and challenges them to look deeper inside themselves through art.
Ashley currently resides in Kitchener, Ontario with her wife, two children and many animals. When she’s not making art, she is a parent advocate running support and resource groups for parents who have children with disabilities.
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