Amanda Helen Atkins

PAINTING begins with a memory, an emotion, written phrases or the energy of thrown paint. Perhaps best described as action painting, the work is intuitive and unplanned, relying on speed and focus in execution, along with much 'accident' or unplanned gestural mark making as well as the magic of the paint itself. The work is about relationship, tension, waiting, the moment before the inevitable and the experience of waiting to be devoured. Landscape like at times but with no horizon, my paintings are 'abstract airscapes' each a stage (or web) in which my little glyphs or actors (sushi and insect like) play out the tensions between each other and the interpretations of the viewer. DRAWING: When drawing I work religiously from life, drawing from the model, found objects, dead insects, anything that fascinates me - and these forms enter my entourage of glyphs, featuring in my painted work. My drawing is, however, typically figurative. ME I studied art specialising in ceramic (figurative) sculpture and started painting almost by mistake - hoping to fund an adventure to California. Selling the contents of my art school portfolio at auction - with a few freshly done paintings - at my local pub I raised much more than I expected. Calif...

'92-'93 Foundation in Art & Design (Watford College, UK) '93-'96 BA Hons Ceramics (Bath Spa University, UK)

2017 Royal Geographic Society, London
2017 Walcot Chapel Gallery, Bath
2017 Crypt Gallery, London
2017 Crypt Gallery, Norwich
2016 Siena House, Tuscany
2015 Wheatsheaf, Coombe Hay, Bath
2014 AAF Rome, Galleria Consorti
2013 Emergenze Arte Roma, Galleria Consorti, Rome
2012 AAF Milan, Emergenze Arte Roma
2012 Byard Art, Cambridge. Galleria Consorti Rome
2011 Siena House, Tuscany, Emergenze Arte Roma
2011 Byard, Cambridge, AAF NYC
2010 AAF Hong Kong, London, NYC,
2010 Freemantle Foundation Fiesole,
2010 Byard Art Cambridge
2009 AAF London, NYC, Byard Art Cambridge

Pre - 2009 showing at New Designers in Islington, Hutson Gallery in Mayfair, Widcombe Studios Gallery Bath, Royal Crescent Hotel Bath, First Show of Paintings at Ring O Bells in Bath in year 2000

Work on permanent / public display:
Freemantle Foundation, Fiesole, Tuscany
Paragon Publishers, Bath
Thring Townsend, Bath.
The Blue Rooms, Bath
Lounge, Bath.
The Wheatsheaf, Coombe Hay, Bath