 I paint because I love being creative; I love making something beautiful out of nothing. I love the potential of starting with a white sheet of paper or literally a blank canvas and seeing what happens.
I have been painting and drawing since I was young, but was discouraged when I was sixteen, as I didn’t believe I was good enough to get the grades I needed at A Level to go to university. I only dabbled from then until my twenties, doing paintings for friends and family as gifts, but not really spending much time on any art apart from that. I grew increasingly interested in photography as an alternative way to expend my creative energy, although I lacked the technical ability in that field also.
When I was in my mid-20s a friend and colleague introduced me to abstract acrylic painting, whilst I was working as a marketing manager for an insurance company! I loved the freedom of painting abstracts; the joy of creating something beautiful and dramatic without the frustration of trying to reproduce what was in my head (often with limited success) when painting more traditional ‘fine art’.
Since then I have acquired the patience (and time) to go back to the fine art; I now paint watercolours and acrylic landscapes, and dabble in pencil drawing and pen & ink. I also continue with the photography, often painting watercolours from my own images, as well as exploring digital photography as an art form in its own right. However my main passion is still for the abstracts.
With my abstract work I love the colours, the mix and texture, the shapes that come out. I feel the abstracts paint themselves: I choose the colours and the style and more or less that is the end of the conscious thought. After that the painting takes over and I go with the flow, adding colour and moving paint as the picture seems to tell me to. The hardest part is to know when to stop and not to get carried away: there are many paintings before the final, ‘finished’ piece, and recognising the optimum moment to put the brush down is often the make-or-break of the work!
I delight in how people react to my paintings, especially the abstracts. I feel honoured when someone is moved by something I have created. My abstracts change and grow the more you look at them, with changing light, changing moods. If people see that, and enjoy that, then I have done what I set out to do.
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Amanda Martin
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Size: 2.75" x 2.75"
Price: £18.00
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