Ash graduated from the Royal Veterinary College with an FdSc in Veterinary Nursing in 2010, and worked in first opinion Practice in Dorset with access to low field MRI and digital radiography systems. He returned to the RVC in 2012, undertaking the Graduate Diploma in Clinical and Professional Veterinary Nursing whilst continuing to work in first opinion practice, choosing to undertake the surgical nursing and diagnostic imaging elective modules, which further developed his interest in radiography. During this period he built and coded a custom image storage system for the practice he worked at, allowing query and retrieval of digital imaging studies.