Ashley Tinker is a Canadian artist that has been living in Provence for 10 years. An anglophone from Montréal, Ashley moved to Provence with her partner Robin in search for La Belle Vie. She has found it in the Alpilles.
Most recent exhibition in Eygalières May-Sept 2025 : À Travers les Alpilles
Ashley studied studio arts in Florence at Firenze Arti Visive for a year in 2008 and then received her Bacehlor’s degree in Fine Art Film photography at Concordia University in Montréal in 2013.
Ashley enjoys many creative endeavours that include photography, ceramics, drawing and painting. She will be attending the Museum of Loss and Renewal artist residency in Collemacchia, Italy this November.
After focusing mainly on photography for many years, Ashley started painting again for the first time, in 2019, since her time in Italy at the NG Art Residency studio. Shortly afterwards, she found herself gifted months of free time to work on her oil paintings due to the lockdown of the Covid pandemic. She has been focusing more her painting ever since.
Ashley draws her inspiration from the Alpilles region of Provence and its complex mix of agriculture and wild plants. She has a particular affinity to olive trees whose gnarly trunks and various shades of green leaves are depicted in her impasto oil paintings. She paints in her studio at home in Mollégès as well as en plein air in the regional park. Her studio is open to the public via rendezvous.
See examples of Ashley’s work on her fine art website : ashleytinker.com
Exhibitions
