Mash Ritchie

Mash Ritchie is an emerging artist living and working as an art consultant in Toronto, ON. She has graduated from OCAD University with a BFA from the Drawing and Painting program.

Ritchie directs her abilities between two disciplines of painting: abstract and surreal landscapes (current series in progress, unavailable). As these parallels are explored, the theme of identity has become present in her artistic journey as she reflects and situates herself within it. Wanting to explore her practice without the limitations of having a "cohesive" body of work, Ritchie continues to explore her methods of painting through her two directions of painting.

In her “Untitled Series”, Ritchie continues to expand on expressive mark making following her intuitive process. Familiar to this method of painting, she is re-imagining her abstract works from a perspective of ‘reflection’, as this method of painting has been a foundational marker in her artistic career.

Currently, Ritchie has been exploring surreal landscapes. Pulling ideas from her own identity, she has been dissecting her ideologies, partial religious upbringing, the influence of outside events and how she views herself as a 'being' having a human experience. Throughout her new series, a lucid reality can be seen through motifs and objects within dire landscapes (current series in progress, unavailable).