This abstract painting showcases a vibrant and dynamic composition. The canvas is filled with an array of bold, expressive brushstrokes in a harmonious blend of warm hues, including vibrant oranges, reds, and yellows, interspersed with cooler tones of purple and blue. The overall effect is a visually captivating interplay of organic shapes and gestural markings that convey a sense of movement and energy. The artist's distinctive style, characterized by a spontaneous and gestural approach, invites the viewer to engage with the work and interpret its emotional resonance. This piece may reflect the artist's intention to explore the expressive potential of color and form in a contemporary abstract idiom. ...
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. ...
