Ashley Akers will present a new unique collection of new Watercolor paintings, along with the Art Assemblages they were inspired by, and new Exhibition Poster for her exhibition "SECRETS", Saturday, August 11 through Saturday, August 18 at the Green Schoolhouse Gallery, a restored one-room Finnish school, located two miles down the St. George peninsula on Route 131 South.

“SECRETS” is an exhibition much different than any Ashley has had before. First creating Art Assemblages and then creating Watercolors based on each Assemblage makes this exhibition very special for the artist. Both Art Assemblage and Watercolor will be displayed in this exhibition. “I wanted to create something from within myself but through something that everyone can identify with. I felt that I could represent something within a small object of assemblage that I could not do as precisely with something I could see in a landscape because it would be something outside of myself instead of looking within.”

When Ashley was only a few weeks old her father carried her in a cradle to his studio, where she was content to watch him paint. Ashley began drawing and painting as soon as she could hold a pencil and a brush. She was always sketching small pictures of people and images from her imagination. Whenever she met people she would sketch them or draw something on request. Many people began to display her sketches. At age five, she had her first exhibit with her father and began selling her art and accepting commissions. At the age of seven Ashley had her first museum exhibition. Her father, Gary Akers, says "Ashley's watercolors are very mature for her age, but what impresses me the most is her thinking process in approaching a painting; that shows maturity. Since then many wonderful things have happened for Ashley such as being able to offer her first two Giclee prints to the public at age 12, and with the sales from these prints she paid her way to New Zealand and Australia, traveling as a Student Ambassador. At age 13, she paid her way through Central Europe with the sales from her paintings and from commissions she received. Ashley's watercolor painting "Anne," a portrait of an antique doll, is hanging in a special place in the Executive Mansion in Frankfort, Kentucky.

Having recently graduated from New York Film Academy in New York City, Ashley is currently developing her acting and filmmaking skills. Recently Ashley has participated in the 48 Hour Film Festival with two films "Sam & Benedict" and "Separate Me." Ashley is thrilled to be producing a short film series that is scheduled to air on television Fall 2007.