Amanda Oliphant

I am a practicing artist exhibiting nationally and internationally with a BA in Fine Art and an MA in Art as Environment. I have worked on two large London Olympic sculptures and was a wildcard on Sky Arts Landscape of the Year 2023. With an approach to capturing the landscape through abstraction, unique tonal values and different mark making techniques, new imaginary worlds emerge. Although I now work mainly on 2D working on large canvas painting wide open vistas where we loose our sense of existence, to unforgiving coastal cliffs exposing the edge of a landscape, to dramatic weather patterns rolling in or leaving us and dense magical woodlands tucked away in a hillside, I am inspired with every vision. There is an endless beauty in the unknown/unseen, a conversation is ignited as soon as the paint touches the surface, for me this is fundamental to who I am as an artist.

2006-2008 MA Art as Environment. Miriad. MMU Manchester UK
2005-2006 Fine Art Fellowship. Wirral Metropolitan College. Wirral UK
2002-2005 BA Hons (1st Class) Fine Art. Wirral Metropolitan College/JMU Liverpool UK