Amy worked in screen printing and textile art before focusing on painting. She is interested in layers, underpainting and process.

Amy combines gesture and character with ideas of rich colour, areas of loose and tight and confidence in line. Her influences are Edgar Degas, Kaye Donachie, Peter Doig and John Singer Sargent - all use the figure to convey narrative alongside beautiful painterly technique.

“My subject matter is mostly figurative, I am naturally drawn to imagery from the past, especially the 70’s and 80’s, and the work of British social documentary photographers. The activity of choosing imagery and selecting composition is key to the final outcome. Looking back into our recent past is an act of remembering and nostalgic mis-remembering, with  photographs becoming the memory which constructs stories about ourselves. I am also drawn to the times gone past which seem less self conscious, more free and full of what we were becoming.”

EDUCATION

• BA Fine Art (printmaking) - Glasgow School of Art 1997

• MA Fine Art - Brighton University 2001

• PGCE Art & Design 2002

Solo & group EXHiBITIONS

• 2023 Evidence - solo show at Cameron Contemporary

• 2023 Royal Society of Portrait Painters , London

• 2023 Royal Institute of Watercolour Painters , London

• 2022/3 Society of Scottish Artists 130th Annual Exhibition – Commissioned piece responding to Edvard Munch

• 2022 October – Sussex Contemporary at the i360 Brighton

• 2022 November – ING Discerning Eye at the Mall Galleries, London

• 2022 September Figures Group Show Cameron Contemporary, Hove

• 2022 July - Beep Contemporary, Swansea

• 2022 August – Oxmarket Contemporary Open – Chichester

• 2022 July Atelier Brighton Open Call

• 2022 Trinity Buoy Wharf Gallery , London - Group Show

• 2022  March ‘Time & Place’ with Jane Campling, Cameron Contemporary, Hove

• 2021 Sky Arts Portrait Artist of the Year

• 2021 Trinity Buoy Wharf Drawing Prize Exhibition

• 2021 Tate Livestream Portrait of Cornelia Parker

• 2019 Winter Show, Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2019 Fresh Paint, a 6-person show of new artists at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2019  gnt gallery Eastbourne Solo Show

• 2019  Summer Show at Cameron Contemporary Art

• 2018  Gallery 31 Brighton Solo Show

• 2005-2019 Brighton Open Houses May Exhibition, various venues

• 2003  Artist in Residence Croydon College

• 1998 Royal West of England Show