Biography & Resume

Amy’s artwork has been in some of the most prestigious shows and galleries in the US and Canada-- For the last several years she has also exhibited in her home gallery where she draws an international clientele. She has instructed workshops and loves teaching drawing and painting classes.

 

The studio is located in northern Colorado on the old family ranch. In her studio gallery, you will find her paintings of animals- wild and domestic, landscapes, florals  and  portraits . Miniatures to murals and mixed media sculpture - almost every media and combination are explored and displayed.

 

Statement

 

“Beginning with my thumbnail sketch, I create the abstract bones that are the skeleton on which the value, color, temperature, focal point, paint thickness and line will be hung. I tell my students that painting and drawing are like juggling twenty-five balls of different sizes. Each must be tossed into the air at just the right time, with the right intensity to make the whole show a performance to inspire awe.

 

It is daunting, this business of being an artist. It requires courage, tremendous courage to take chances and attempt compositions, colors, media and myriads of concepts that may work out. Big risks yield the greatest rewards. I listen carefully when my intuition tells me, ‘This could be really amazing. No one else has done it. Do it!’

 

My artistic valor rarely wavers. Because, after all, I am knowing how the supreme being felt when she created space, earth, oceans, animals and people. My art is like that. It becomes a very intimate experience, the painting becomes another installment of myself.

 

Enter my art and enjoy life with me.”

 

Past Galleries-

Hart Galleries in Saratoga, Wyoming

 Carson Gallery of Western American Art in Denver

Richard James Gallery Charleston, SC

Altermann & Morris, NM

Burdette Gallery, Orton Ontario

 

Licensed work-

Mill Pond Press 

Danbury Mint

Bradford Exchange

Fiddler’s Elbow

Cobblehill Canada 

 

Shows-

Southeastern Wildlife Expo, Charleston, SC

Leigh Yawkey Woodson Birds in Art

Salmagundi Club- NYC