Amy Ernst

Over the years my travels have been my greatest teacher. I have taken these memories and have incorporated them into my contructed collaged books, prints amd paintings. Each work is always a surprise; and I rarely layout or sketch before. The result is unexpected even for planned work such as my hand-made collaged books.

Although my travels have been extensive, the most influences have come from Northern Italian and Flemish Renaissance art, the spirituality and imagery from India; to the mountains of Spain, Alaskan glaciers, Colorado's gorges, and Arizona's Canyons to the beautiful beachs of North Carolina and New York's lush forests.

All are pure collage elements within themselves, that seem to emerge from my work as dreamlike states.

I have been living and working in New York since l984; as a full-time artist Also giving lectures, master workshops in collage and printmaking as well as assisting ng other artists as an arts administrator. There are four generations of artists in my family, Philip, a portrait painter, Max Ernst and my father abstract-surrealist, Jimmy Ernst.

My travels also have included exhibitions and lectures in Paris London, Stockholm, Finland, Barcelona, Tangier-Morocco, New York, Virgina...

Yes, all the way past graduate school, did not need art school, I saw it in my fathers' studio and continue to workshop with master artists, printers etc. The world is a school.,