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North Carolina native trades traditional studio art for high-energy live speed painting<\/p>\n

\"Audrey<\/a>N.C. \u2014<\/p>\n

Laura Ashley <\/a>is taking her passion of live art painting and performing in front of audiences across the southeast. <\/p>\n

She is from Asheboro, North Carolina and is a former high school art teacher and also ran a paint and sip studio. <\/p>\n

Ashley started painting at weddings and special events like graduation ceremonies, birthdays, baby showers, corporate events, athletic games, and more. <\/p>\n

Click here <\/a>to book her for your event. <\/p>\n

Ashley has also raised thousands of dollars for non-profits close to her heart through her artwork. <\/p>\n

She came by the WXII 12 News studio to paint live for Audrey Biesk and unveiled a special surprise. <\/p>\n

Click on the video player above to watch the full segment. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"North Carolina native trades traditional studio art for high-energy live speed painting N.C. \u2014 Laura Ashley is taking…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":627337,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[307,304,305,306,266435,266447,1521,266436,80826,18956,266443,308,7388,93,196688,266444,61,60,266437,266438,266439,1529,60339,858,266446,266445,266440,266441,266442,4902,11344,232551,31867],"class_list":["post-627336","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-arts-and-design","tag-arts","tag-arts-and-design","tag-artsanddesign","tag-artsdesign","tag-asheboro-native","tag-athletic-game","tag-audience","tag-audrey-biesk","tag-baby-shower","tag-birthday","tag-corporate-event","tag-design","tag-dollar","tag-entertainment","tag-graduation-ceremony","tag-high-energy-live-speed","tag-ie","tag-ireland","tag-laura-ashley","tag-laura-ashley-live-art","tag-live-speed-painting","tag-local-news","tag-non-profit","tag-north-carolina","tag-sip-studio","tag-special-event","tag-speed-paint","tag-speed-painter","tag-the-local-vibe","tag-thousand","tag-wedding","tag-wxii","tag-wxii-12-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627336","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=627336"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/627336\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/627337"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=627336"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=627336"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=627336"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}