ARTS & CULTURE

“I want to be able to create a piece to show others what I see when I look at the world ”

Amy was greatly influenced by the impressionists. Renoir's painting, “Bal du moulin de la Galette” is one of Amy’s favourite paintings as well as George Seurat’s, “ASunday Afternoon on the Island of La Grande Jatte” .

“I love works with a strong sense of colour and culture that are filled with people out living their lives.”

Amy paints primarily with oil She loves the texture and vibrance of oil paint as well as the blending capacity and versatility working with the various mediums available with oil paint

Amy describes her work as an emotional response to how she feels about a place.

“I love to work with exaggerated colour and light to give a slightly surreal or romanticized feel to the places that I paint.”

Amy now creates with more detailed work in her pieces with the intent to give the observer more to look at. She wants people to find new details in her paintings each time they look at them.

Amy explained that it took a long time to figure out what her style was, and she finds that it is always evolving. She tried several different styles and subjects and it took her about eight years to find her own, unique style Amy shared that she was often rejected when she applied to juried shows and galleries when she was in her twenties. When Amy reached her thirties, she went from working as a full-time waitress to part-time in order to create time to paint, and eventually made the jump to painting full time. It still took years to be established in selling her work regularly Amy started by selling paintings for very little money in order to pay for more painting supplies.

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