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

I grew up in a more remote area of Connecticut, in-the-sticks you could say. I spent most of my time outside surrounded by trees, ponds and rolling hills with what I thought were ancient stone walls. My mom still can’t get a pizza delivered to her house and there are some narrow unsettling roads with sheer drops down into a ravine leading to her home. Nature to me became an infinite slideshow of diverse and intricately beautiful spaces. 200 in.² could be a world of its own curated by the forces of nature. Nature magnification works, in my Animals Botanical and Minerals series, Majestify (my own word) a bijou space that I find in my travels.

I love to travel, I love to hike and I love to camp, and yet sometimes those gorgeous tiny plots of land may be a showering of spring petals across the puddle on a sidewalk in the rain in a small New England village. Looking up through blossoms on a crabapple tree, the long-term relationship of tree branches and ocean tumbled boulders, the tiny view within the crevice of a sunbleached fallen tree at the seashore… these all find their ways into the Viewmaster reel of my existence.

I am a random traveler through this world, my painting series are way of organizing locations, cityscapes, seascapes, landscapes and people-scapes. I get turned on by the challenge of a new surface that is intricate and difficult. I’m a texture junkie and when I paint it’s like constantly engineering how to create the fractals of a texture with my brushes and my paint and my canvas. “Brushes” could include random tools I find in hardware, grocery and pet stores if it will get the paint where I need it to go. I am a witness to that time, that place. I want to see a very small phenomenon grow mighty and beautiful.

Whistler House Museum of Art/Lowell Art Association Artist Member
USVAA United States Veterans’ Artists Alliance Advisory Board Member
CCY Center for Creative Youth Alumna
CoISo The Copley Society of Art Artist Member

If you are interested in commissioning a painting, or purchasing one shown, contact me to discuss details and availability.

amy.r.roberts.art@gmail.com