"Solitary Sorrow" Painting

If I could say in words what my paintings reveal about my inner feelings, my sequestered emotions finding escape in the dawn of description, I would have no need to paint.

What is my nude silhouette art about? All I can say is that every painting starts with a compulsion to exhale emotions that are foreign, frightening, or frustrating. From there pure unadulterated emotion takes over and fingers and hands spread acrylic across a canvas leaving behind blaring echoes of my desires, my pains, my passions, and my very soul. The bright colors attempt to hide the sorrow and heartaches just as I try to hide behind a smile in real life. Each painting is a page directly out of my personal diary, another tale of lovers lost, anger amplified, or damages long disguised.

The celebrity abstract portrait series is how I see the world around me. The colors are meant to reflect how colorful and unique our personalities are and to show the beauty that resides within that color.

The abstract mixed media series is done with acrylics, inks, and multiple mediums. The paint colors are stacked in one container then poured onto the surface of a board or canvas. Manual manipulation spreads the paint and a blow torch makes colors rise through each other to the top.
The end result is a chaos of color that has made it's own course much like we each must do in life.

My name is Amber McNeel. I am 42, married, mother of two, and have been expressing emotions through paint and canvas for about seven years.