Profile

Amanda graduated Fine Arts from the University of Canterbury in 1969. She married in 1970 and farmed with her husband in the remote Clarence Valley, Marlborough, where they brought up their three children.  From 1992 on she began exhibiting her paintings and her work is currently selling throughout New Zealand and overseas.  In 1996 she and her family moved to Christchurch.  In 1997 she travelled to the US to study Modern Art and on returning to Christchurch opened her own Art School. In the following years Amanda held several successful solo exhibitions. Most  of her works are oil on canvas . Amanda’s inspiration comes from the Southern Alps to the rolling plains, the city and the coast. Her style moves easily between the abstract and expressively realistic. Some landscapes are partly imagined and fragmented blocks of colour to convey emotion. Texture is achieved with lots of oil paint and a palette knife to create added mood.

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