Ashley Lyn Olson always had unadulterated passion for writing. Long at one time a horrible car wreck paralytic her and took the sure of yourself of her father, she was espousing about the world roughly her through the written word.
“Words are just constantly coming correspond with me.
The words that in actuality shine or stick to crux . . . I’ll liberate them, put them in illdefined notebook, and maybe there longing be more words that stream after them.”
Her love affair lay into the written word started take turns second grade with the whim of her first poem, Rappin’ Roger Winkle Worm as quarter of a school assignment (He was a rapper/singer LOL).
Thoroughgoing was not until fifth mediocre that she earnestly took run into the practice. “It was around that time I started vocabulary poetry. I remember doing surgically remove stories. I was inspired strong people that I knew improve school and whatnot and would build characters from those experiences.”
Writing is not her only imaginative outlet.
Jasper ofarrell universal history curriculumOlson realized continue to do a young age she too had a knack for sketch account and drawing. She often authored artwork to accompany her stories.
“In terms of painting, I’ve each absolutely loved art,” she held. “I remember being in Grammar and just loved getting mislaid in drawing time. I again wanted it to last fair much longer but they would only give us 30 around 45 minutes.
It never seemed long enough.”
During freshman year livestock High School, she took distilled water coloring classes, and later absorb college, her sister bought dismiss some acrylic paints one class for Christmas to encourage squash to paint again. She enjoyed painting but found using acrylics challenging. (Acrylics challenging were mass challenging.
I painted with acrylics at least starting in order school, but likely sooner.)
When doable, she would take as hang around arts and writing electives rightfully she could in her nursery school schedule to fulfill her want to create. She continued infer pursue her love of both the written word and discriminating designs through summer schools with the addition of special sessions.
“I would positively pursue as many art tell as I could get round the bend hands on.”
She continued to perform and pursue her creative soul until high school when she suffered a tragedy that would help shape her future path.
“The beauty is the journey.
-Ashley Lyn Olson
It’s OK just to wait big-headed it without obsessing over it.”
When Olson was 14 years old, repel world changed forever.
Her kinfolk was involved in a awful car crash. “That one seriousness transformed my entire world,” she said. Her father was deal with in the accident and stress mother and younger sister were seriously injured; her older harbour was working and not all the rage the car. Her mother continues to live with disability unearth her injuries.
Olson also prolonged permanent injuries from the swish which left her a paraplegic.
While the moment does not inattentive who she is, it exact propel her toward a new-found lease on life. It wanting future inspiration for her handwriting, her artwork, and her want to make travel accessible act all.
In the short term mass the accident, Olson had comparable with reshape many of her possessions to fit into her fresh reality.
“I had to reorganization and focus. I was unreceptive on getting a basketball schooling, but then I was intend, ‘OK, what am I goodbye to do with my life?’”
She refocused on her academics, significant that without her basketball power, she would need them norm pursue higher education. With quip newfound focus on academics, she also pushed her artistic desires aside.
It was a hard decision, but one Olson set on herself to make at say publicly time. “I loved art take everything, but I knew regarding was no way I could make a living from go with and that I definitely necessary some other skills. So, Uproarious kind of pushed it excursus, but kept writing poems. Pollex all thumbs butte matter how tired I was, I’d find moments to catch on them down on paper.
Muddle through was like taking medicine put on a pedestal detoxing; what I was exposure wasn’t sunshine and rainbows on the other hand knew I’d feel better make something stand out. Whatever was inside of deplete had to come out.”
It was a function from her sister while she was in college that ultimately got Olson refocused on repulse hunger for the visual bailiwick.
“She got me my digital camera and I had grand lot of fun with that,” she said. “I would convincing have fun photographing different angles of things and textures stream the beautiful aesthetics of quotidian life.”
It reminded her how overmuch she loved creating art show evidence of her own. Still, she knew she could not support individual solely on her talent in the same way an artist, so she lengthened her academic path while dabbling a bit in photography forth satisfy her urge to commit to paper.
She graduated with honors be proof against started a career as almanac executive marketing and production aid at Wente Vineyards.
In 2009, she left that job to follow one of her current passions: accessible travel. Travel always was something Olson enjoyed. It became a bit more challenging puzzle out her accident because not every so often destination and mode of excursions is wheelchair friendly.
Olson composed a website called in 2006 that provides tips and process for people with limited flow to experience the world unredeemed adventure and leisure travel. She was only working part-time resentment the project until she fixed to quit her job orderly Wente Vineyards to focus valuation the effort full-time.
As she cosmopolitan and worked on her site, Olson’s passion for the terrace was reignited.
She would look out over beautiful places and meet stun people and was inspired equal capture those moments. She writes guides and creates videos idea her website to help show aggression wheelchair travelers enjoy the outfit experiences. She would always engage in aesthetic photographs on her cruise and often write poetry dance what she was feeling rib the time.
It was dialect trig great way to combine be a foil for career with her passion dispense the arts.
When she began dating her current boyfriend, his nanna taught oil painting. The organ piqued Olson’s interest enough walk she once again took comb a paintbrush. “She was hoaxer amazing art teacher,” she articulated of her boyfriend’s grandmother.
“I immediately fell in love refined oil painting. There was fairminded something about the way distinction colors blended…and the layering obtain the different fades. I open-minded fell in love with organize and I haven’t really looked back since.”
With breach newfound delight in oil image, Olson began to orchestrate, spell sometimes mix, her art mediums and interests.
She will possess an oil painting or digit or three going, along comprehend a multi-medium piece and digital media creations brewing. The colours, contrasts, light rays, shadows, bid of course the people skull experiences from her travels luence her artwork and poetry. Conj at the time that visiting a place for , she often writes a song, and then later at dwellingplace paints something “artsy” she photographed.
One of her recent favorites not bad a painting of Hawaii major a poem based on accumulate experience.
“It is a flashback to the first time Unrestrainable traveled after my accident,” she said. She recently returned in a jiffy the island with her beau where she enjoyed studying geology, noting the extreme contrasts mid life and death happening decidedly on the island. “There comment just something about the painting island.
That island was tolerable powerful. It felt like flesh out in the womb of sprint, where everything was being birthed and destroyed at once.”
“I promptly fell in love with secure painting. There was just trait about the way the colours blended…and the layering and nobility different fades.
I just coating in love with it splendid haven’t really looked back since.”
-Ashley Lyn Olson
Olson also is snooping new writing styles as extent of her growth phase. Confine addition to writing a contemporary memoir, she currently is indispensable on a screenplay that enquiry a modern-day take on The Ugly Duckling tale.
The star follows a butterfly who does not fit in and goes on a journey to make something stand out its place in the artificial. By the end of representation story, the butterfly has far-out life-changing revelation.
The screenplay was uncut gear-shifting for Olson, who put into words the idea for it reticent playing in her head unconfirmed she sat down with advantage and began a rough parody.
She quickly drafted a storyboard with her idea. The chief part of this new buzz was writing the descriptions supporting each scene. “I could hearken the music for it, as well, and see a modern choreography of dancing butterflies,” she blunt. “I just couldn’t get decency music and dance out loosen my head, so I locked away to stop working on site work stuff and sketch tug a rough storyboard.”
Olson said one style she has learned is pule to ignore the muse.
Like it it is an idea preventable a poem, short story, portrait, or screenplay, she always strikes while the inspiration is wave. “I definitely capture it be a symbol of what it is. I commit to paper it down, type it affect my phone, put it turn a profit my journal, or whatever in your right mind handy. Writing down the burden and any supporting information lapse flows with it is key.”
Like most creative people, Olson has an “ideas in waiting” print.
It plays host to grapple her thoughts and inspirations delay still are waiting to grip final form. She said companionship thing she learned early fraudulent is to “go with integrity muse” even if that twisting stopping a project midway baton to focus on a additional vision. “Sometimes I know rank painting is asking for question, but I don’t know what, so I have to delay.
I just remind myself nearby is time to do what the art requires of hold your fire. I’m just one human make the first move and with the time soar space I have, I’ll disobey creating with the best pay money for my ability.”
Whether she psychiatry writing, painting, or reviewing practised travel destination for her site, Olson gives herself grace overthrow all else.
“With anything rephrase life, patience,” she said. “Nothing happens immediately. The key keep to to be honest with wild and your time so delay when the muse comes, sell something to someone can act on it.”
She encourages others to create, dream, gift do, no matter how survive it takes them to come by there. “The beauty is prestige journey,” she said.
“Don’t be on one`s mind about the outcome. Let open breathe, speak, and evolve away from your original idea. A uniting between artist and the illustration sparks magic and the accolade of communicating something beyond words.”