Margaret Ashman is an experienced printmaker specialising in photo etching. She trained at the Universities of Hertfordshire and Brighton and is also an Oxford graduate. She is currently a fellow of the Royal Society of Painter Printmakers and member of the Printmakers Council.

Margaret Ashman is a printmaker whose etchings focus on sign language and dance. Her interests include exploring gesture and sign as the root of language; transformation and transcendence. Hands feature as a recurring theme in her images, whether re affirming positive qualities of human nature or as a means of expression.

Ashman's recent work includes a sequence of prints based on a sign dance which she made into an Artists's book Towards the Light for an exhibition at the University of Kent, Capturing Movement. She was also commissioned by the Arts Council to make a series of self portrait photo etchings, and self portrait film as part of a project, Shifting Subjects, at the Abbey Walk Gallery.

Selected Exhibitions include:

Royal Academy Summer Exhibition

Light/Matter Intersection of Photography and Print, Grunwald Gallery, Indiana University, IN, USA

Capturing Movement: Art and Contemporary Dance, University of Kent

Shakespeare: A Celebration, William Roland Gallery of Fine Art, California Lutheran University, CA, USA

London Original Print Fair, Royal Academy, London

Incisioni Al Feminile, Atlelier Controsegno, Pozzuoli, Italy

Shape Open, Ecology Pavilion, Mile End, London

Pushing Boundaries, Dunamaise Arts Centre, Portlaoise, Ireland

The Masters, Bankside Gallery

National Original Print Exhibition, London

Contemporary Prints by the RE, For Arts Sake, Ealing

RE Originals, Bankside Gallery

London Original Print Fair, London

Invited Artist, 8th International Print Biennial, Douro

4th Art at Wharepuke Open Printmaking Show, Kerikeri, New Zealand