Malcolm Ashman was born in Bath, Somerset in 1957. 

Malcolm is a multi-disciplinary artist working in painting, drawing, collage, digital printmaking, photography and sculpture.

He is an academician at the Royal West of England Academy  (RWA), a member of the Royal Society of British Artists (RBA) at the Mall Galleries in London and is president of the Bath Society of Artists. He has exhibited widely in London and the south of England, including the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition, the Threadneedle Prize and the Royal Society of Portrait Painters, the New English Art Club, the Royal Watercolour Society, the Pastel Society, the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour, the Derwent Drawing Prize and the South West Academy.

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“The landscape has been an important influence on my work for most of my life. I don’t maintain a single cohesive style but prefer to allow each piece to dictate my response. 

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The landscape paintings are not directly observed but are worked from brief drawings and memory. They are places I know well; this is an important part of the work, revisiting the familiar. At its core it’s about solitude.”