Artist Statement and Bio
Amanda is a self-taught artist who began seriously working with oil paint in December 2019.
She loves natural landscapes as a place for calm and rejuvenation, so it is no surprise that these are her favorite subjects. She imbues each landscape, nocturne, and flower painting with her love for the natural space, using a variety of strokes, blending, glazing, and palette knife work to compose scenes that capture the essence of the real space, reimagined through her own lens.
Her experience with landscape photography for two decades informs her understanding of composition and design, and she loves the freedom in painting that allows her to choose which elements to include and which to leave out in order to simplify a scene. Her paintings are representational and impressionistic with sprinkles of realism.
From Amanda: "My artwork pulls out beauty from the mundane, elevating common scenes to imaginative and beautiful reveries. Always representational and expressive with hints of impressionism, I play with design, composition, and colors in order to capture the feeling I had when viewing any given scene or subject."
See her Latest Shows & Events page.
Read her Feb. 2022 interview with Emmaus Public Library.
2022 Art Shows
Lehigh Art Alliance Juried Winter Exhibition 2022
Participating in the Nazareth Plein Air event (May 2022, Lehigh Art Alliance); show in June at Nazareth Center for the Arts.
Now Available: Amanda's 20-painting spring flower collection (all 5" x 5" oil on cradled birch, painted around all four edges) are available in person only at the Lil Flower Shack at the corner of Lincoln Street and Rt. 309 in Center Valley, PA. (19 left)
May 2022 flowers exhibit at Gallery 840 in Allentown, PA (four paintings on display)
First national juried show of 2022: Delaplaine Arts Center in Frederick, MD. Show runs May 7 - July 10, 2022.
First juried show acceptance of the year: Lehigh Art Alliance 2022 Winter Juried Exhibition at the Ron DeLong Gallery at Penn State Lehigh Valley. Show ran Jan. 29 - March 15.
Sixteen of Amanda's landscape paintings (one sold) were displayed at Emmaus Public Library through March 1.
Donated two paintings worth $250 each (both sold) to the March 18 Got ART fundraising event for Lehigh Art Alliance and Historic Bethlehem. Tickets: https://store.historicbethlehem.org/got-art-admission-2022/
Two of her largest paintings, "Roses on the Edge" (24" x 36") and "Wild Daisy Field" (18" x 24") were shown at Gallery 840 in Allentown, PA for the "Coming Alive" exhibit through April 23, 2022.