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With painting I am always exploring things I love, things that have loved me and the ultimate source of this love. I’m exploring what it means to capture things that bring me joy and intimately share that with my viewer. My references start as images that I love, and this love and joy is multiplied when I paint them. I am attempting to display my authentic self- the result of the many influences throughout my life. I want my work to be beautiful and I am defining that by painting it- I usually start with the source of beauty- a source most can agree on: nature. Nature which was created by the original source of beauty- the same source that has given me the gift of creativity.

I am exploring how I can use unexpected colors and appetizing marks to draw my viewer into average subjects. My palette reflects colors that have shaped my life, colors I attribute to a life growing up in the south, in church and surrounded by art. I have focused largely on landscapes, and I am experimenting with imagined perspectives and transforming the landscape to a fanciful version of reality. As I work on my paintings they hang together and speak to one another through color, mark and form. As I create them, they create a space for me, to find joy and to be inspired. Eventually I want my paintings to live individually. I want them to go to people who will love them. I want them to adorn separate spaces and provide joy to other people. I paint to decorate a world that needs inspiration. I know the world is dark, but I have an eternal hope that brings me joy. I hope you can feel my paintings.

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Love,

 Amelia