Amy Roberts

Western Avenue Studios and Lofts
160 Western Avenue Loft 214
Lowell MA

I grew up in the foothills of the Berkshire Mountains in Connecticut and began lessons with oils when I was nine.
Now my chosen medium is acrylics because they work well in my traveling lifestyle. My path has offered the opportunity to live in several states, the Carolinas, California, Virginia, Texas, Hawaii, Kansas, and Massachusetts. My paintings have found homes as far away as Japan, Norway, and South America. The years I spent as a linguist in the US Army and a Marine Corps dependent gave me the gift of travel. Browsing my portfolio is holding postcards from my life. Hanging my work in your space is a window to something that clung to my heart and mind long after I moved on my path.

I explore in ever widening rings from where I am, I am a witness to that time, that place. I have moved 19 times and lived in nine states. I am about finding the small spaces, hidden places and mercurial skylines, returning at different times of day. The effect of the light is of special interest to me. Reflections in water, glass, ice, a polished floor offer the kinds of challenges I want to master. I prefer working on a larger canvas, building them to complement the su...

I studied oil painting for nine years, I spent two years in a BFA program at a state university then decided I wanted a bit of traveling and enlisted in the Army. Although I continued to paint and sell on the sidelines of other life work I am now a full time painter at Western Avenue Studios and Lofts in Lowell MA.
I am not hanging in galleries outside of Saatchi Art. I love art societies and calls for group shows because they give a community, but artists struggle financially. The fees associated add up. So I hang in coffee shops (gasp) and bistros and breweries, book stores and libraries. I hang my work where people like to gather. Sometimes I just get a call, "I've been looking at this painting for two hours in Morning Buzz, how do I buy it?"
Saatchi Art allows me to easily offer an alternative to my customers when they do not want original paintings. Over the years Saatchi Art began to lead painting sales to my door. It is exciting to pack a painting in my Lowell studio and send it to a new artistic connection in San Francisco.

Memberships
Copley Society of Art Boston
Whistler House Museum of Art
USVAA United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance
CCY Center for Creative Youth Alumna
Lowell Arts Association

Education
Born and raised in Connecticut
Private oil painting lessons 1977-1986
University of Connecticut art department 1986-1988

Awards and Recognitions
Best of Show, Whistler House Museum of Art 2017
Honorable Mention 9th Inspirational, Peabody Essex Museum, 2015

Book Cover
Zippo Boys A Memoir, by Dave Lara, Onward Press 2019

Group Shows
Merrimack College, North Andover, MA, 2020
Gallery of the Boroughs, Northborough MA, 2020
Storage Closet Gallery, Lowell MA, 2020
Open Studios, Western Avenue Studios and Lofts, Lowell MA 2015-present
Ayer Gallery, Lowell MA, 2019
Dracut Art Association, Dracut MA, 2019
Gallery Z, Lowell MA, 2018 two shows
Unchartered Gallery, Lowell MA, 2017
Whistler House Museum of Art, Lowell MA, 2017
Creaticity Art Festival, Lowell MA, 2017
Boston Artweek 2016, 2016, 2017,2018, 2019
Howling Wolf, Salem MA, 2016
Loading Dock Gallery, Lowell MA, 2016
Swampscott Art Association, Swampscott MA, 2015
Salem Arts Association, Salem MA, 2015
Marblehead Arts Association, Marblehead MA 2015

Solo Shows
Centennial Gallery, Peabody MA 2020...