"Kingfisher" by Amy Fisher

34.5 x 30 inches
watercolor collage
$1,900

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Artist Statement: 

After decades of painting scenes from nature, illustrating field guides, creating ecosystem posters, painting birds in their environment, and teaching, I’ve been drawn over the past ten years to pare my imagery to rocks and water - the solid amid the fluid, the seemingly permanent amid agents of erosion. Two things triggered this choice - the ongoing human and geophysical disruption of the natural world, and, a desire to more closely capture my experience of the seen and unseen layers of life energy…the shifting ground.

I have practiced non-dominant hand drawing and painting to access the subconscious for therapeutic purposes. There came a point in that practice when it made sense to cut a painting up to better understand it. This was the precursor to applying collage techniques to my professional paintings. The collage process more closely captures my felt experience of disorder breaking the surface of calm perception.

In a time of so much greed driving destruction of habitat and pervasive climate injustice, I create to celebrate the beauty around us, to acknowledge the human connection to all forms of life, and to witness the sacred.         

About the Artist:

Amy was born in 1951 in East Liverpool OH near the point where Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania meet.

Amy studied art at Carnegie Mellon University, University of Colorado, Philadelphia College of Art and San Fransisco Art Institute before she earned a BFA in painting from the University of Idaho. Her career began in wildlife illustration. Painting for gallery shows and commissions followed. She has exhibited work in Olympia, Seattle, Atlanta, Denver, Los Angeles and Palm Desert, CA. Her watercolor and acrylic paintings are in the corporate collections of The Boeing Company, Pepsi, Sea Ray Boats, Colorado National Bank, Bell South, Coca-Cola, Sheraton Hotels, and in many private collections. Amy taught drawing and painting at TESC and has taught watercolor privately for the past decade.

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