"I want my painting to evoke emotion and nostalgia through the complexity of pattern, color and texture. I begin each painting with a color of diluted, drippy paint, covering the entire canvas. Patterns start to form and ignite the next move. As I build up layers of colors and patterns, objects begin to appear. A painting that started as a landscape can turn into something else entirely. An abstract form can become a still life or a portrait."

Ashley Hagen