Bio

Amanda has been painting for around 20 years and has enjoyed many different mediums. From Watercolour to scratchboard, oil paint to pastel she has tried them all, settling finally on oil paint as her chosen medium. After some early certificate level training after high school, Amanda spent a year in West Africa teaching missionaries kids art and was inspired to further her studies. She gained a BA Arts (painting) and graduated in March 2005.

Being a Mum of small children she has learnt how to continue with her creative journey through sketching, polymer clay and acrylics before being in a position to feel settled on oil painting.

 

Her influences include the Australian Impressionists, especially Arthur Streeton but she is particularly inspired by portrait artists including Evert Ploeg and Nora Heyson.

 

Her art journey continues as she explores portrait themes and the use of symbols found in nature alongside maps and the figure.  She is particularly taken with seedpods and their symbol of life and renewal.

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More recently she has enjoyed exploring the themes of travel and journey and many of her artworks include roads and rivers. Alongside this she is looking more into vintage still life work.