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“Amy’s work is hauntingly beautiful and full of life. Her powers of observation reflect someone who is a “natural philosopher”, a noticer of nature’s weft and of the power of the seasons. Her work harnesses two slightly contradictory feelings. Of sizzle and richness, the shadings blending the cool with the plush, the cold and lonely with the sunburnt and warm.
I have seen the Artist’s work develop over the years and I’m absolutely riveted by her transformation into an observer of the moods of the natural world, unashamedly romantic but in the sense of someone who recognises that what is on canvas is important…in its own right, but also as an essential and intense life force to her. Amy Albright is an artist of distinctive power who will be recognised by a very wide audience as her work is already much sought after. Those of us lucky enough to be looking in now will be able to tell of these days with the air of superiority reserved to such as saw The Beatles in The Cavern Club.”
You may be transported to a misty evergreen lakeside, a distant coastal cliff shrouded by mist or deep underwater in a turquoise expanse. Amy Albrights subjects can be vast, sometimes veering towards abstract, other times recognisable landscapes, but there is always an element of intrigue and unknown.
A subtle tonal ranges of colour is used, an inky consistency of oil paint caresses the canvas, often creating misty, watery, unclear images that are half imagined, half real.
Layering the paint, starting off loose, Amy uses expressive gestural marks outlining her composition and then begins a timely process of ‘reining it in’ by blending, fading, pouring and glazing the oil paint in numerous layers, as though an atmospheric cloud has enveloped. Sometimes Amy incorporates dendrite branch like details as an anchor in an otherwise ethereal world, or the patterns of the way water finds it way though sand on the shore.
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration from her travels, recently Iceland and the dynamic changing weather, tides and coastline of Cornwall where she lives. The boundaries of where land and water merge is an ongoing and perhaps never ending focus for the artist.
Amy Albright is a contemporary British painter from Cornwall whose work explores the shifting boundaries between land, water and atmosphere. A graduate of University College Falmouth with a BA (Hons) in Fine Art, she won the prestigious Midas Award in 2007, leading to a solo show at Newlyn Art Gallery. Based at Krowji Studios in Redruth and a member of the Newlyn Society of Artists, Albright creates layered oil paintings that combine translucent glazes, gestural marks and subtle tonal shifts to evoke tidal movement and underwater light. Her work has been exhibited widely across the UK and internationally, including in New York and Taipei, where she received the Outstanding Award at the E.Sun Art Prize in 2022. Her paintings feature in collections worldwide.
Represented by Galleries
Artwavewest, Dorset
Beside the wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
Porthminster Gallery, St Ives, Cornwall.
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EMAIL: amyalbrightartist@gmail.com
