Hello!
My name is Amy and I am a "house painter." I won't show up to your house with a ladder and overalls though, which is a common miscommunication. (I'm confident my dental hygienist still believes I physically paint people's exterior bricks and siding) Instead, I specialize in capturing your home and your story through watercolor illustration!
I studied studio art at Carthage College and have been illustrating your homes ever since! Over these last six years, I've had the pleasure of helping share your unique stories through visual representations of your houses. Beyond custom watercolor, I also do design work including hand drawn digital illustration and lettering from small prints to large scale murals. Being in community with other creatives keeps me motivated and inspired so if we haven't met, head over to my contact page and socials to say hi! And if you're looking for a house painting (minus the fumes) feel free to message me at the bottom of the "Contact" page. Thanks for stopping by! ☺
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Home
Memory is a precious gift to have. We often fear we may lose our memory, or that our loved ones will. Home is a place where memories are made and where we spend time with the people we know most intimately. Still, not all memories from home are happy, and some may not have a place they call home. Either way, a home or the lack of one plays a crucial part in our upbringing because of how it shapes us as humans.
My series, Home, consists of many different houses that are in a stage of deterioration. Each painting dissolves into open negative space, is freed from its background, and untied to the ground; bricks become undone and loose color slowly fades into the empty white of the page. Houses resemble people because each one is unique. They have character and a history consisting of all the generations that lived there prior. I chose to represent portraits of houses to demonstrate that while nature and life are finite, nothing lasts forever, but memories can live on through us. These houses capture what we have left, including our memories, after our houses or family members are gone. Through the small details of the bricks, and the subtle color transitions, I depict the delicate nature of life. Watercolor itself is very fragile and easily destructible. Just a splash of water could destroy a painting. The gentle way in which the watercolor is applied exemplifies the frailty of life and how it can change in just a matter of seconds.
