Amy Winstanley’s work merges observations and research with intuitive mark-making drawn from personal experience, emotion, and memory. She researches into eco-philosophy, feminist theory, indigenous thought and using the sensorium to experience the world differently—with a focus on our entanglement in, and estrangement from, the more-than-human world. In her process, she oscillates between spontaneous gestures and conscious painterly expressions. She creates space through layers of oil paint and builds shapes and colors that immerse the viewer into a place where there is suggestion of things and an undoing of depiction in a fluid way. Winstanley is interested in the everyday occurrences of birth, death, joy and sadness and uses paintings to think through personal experiences of love, loss, and her relationship to the other-than-human world. She is fascinated by the act of painting itself—the movement of the hand and paintbrush on canvas—the energy of creating something from nothing.

Margot Samel

Amy Winstanley

Evening Monuments to a Life Lesson