This Edmonton Artist Is Making A Mosaic For Taliyah Marsman & The Officers Who Found Her

UPDATE: Wayne Ashley completed his tribute to honour Taliyah and Sara. The full story can be found via the CBC HERE. 

Wayne Ashley is a 49 year old artist who was born and raised in Edmonton and is a member of Driftpile First Nation.

He is a self taught artist who makes beautiful pieces of work dedicated to first responders and victims.

“I have to do this because I feel in my heart there’s a lot of people who do a lot of good, and they carry a lot of dark things with them,” he said in an interview with the CBC.

Wayne Ashley has made mosaic monuments for missing indigenous women, and for fallen officers officers David Wynn and Daniel Woodall.

Ashley doesn’t get asked to make the Mosaics, he simply does it because he wants to and feels it’s right.

The full interview between Wayne Ashley and the CBC can be read here: cbc.ca/news/canada/edmonton 

-The Pepper & Dylan Show

(Pictures from The CBC, www.stalbertgazette.com, and TheEdmontonJournal and Wayne Ashley’s Facebook page)