Amanda's professional experience as a graphic designer has not only instilled design principles. In oil painting she also discovered that she could push her ideas further. Her goals became derived more from personal reflections than commercial concepts. She has the most fun when carefully detailing surfaces, especially natural textures like skin, feathers, or fur. Amanda also enjoys manipulating the effects of scale. Focusing tightly around an image that is known to be small can take away its usual context and make it become more powerful. No matter what imagery she uses, the forms are ultimately a vehicle for color, often playing complimentary colors together for strong visual contrasts, as well as pairing richly painted surfaces with areas of transparency for a more complex paint space.
In her Visagescape series, Amanda approaches the face as a landscape and manipulates the object-environment relationship. The closeness of the images transform the facial features into geological features. These pieces invoke the sometimes terrifying, yet beautiful power of intimacy.
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