This abstract painting features a vibrant palette of blues, purples, and warm hues, with a dreamlike, ethereal composition. The canvas is filled with organic, amorphous shapes and forms that suggest a surreal, almost cosmic landscape. The artist employs a fluid, expressive brushstroke that lends a sense of movement and energy to the work. While the subject matter is largely abstract, the piece evokes a sense of the subconscious and the exploration of the inner world. The artist's intention seems to be to create a captivating visual experience that challenges the viewer's perception and invites contemplation. ...
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. ...
