Amy Albright British, b. 1985
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Cirrus Above, 2024
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Golden Hour, 2024
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Natural Formations, 2024
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Primitive Ochre, 2024
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Surface Spray, 2024
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Trail of a Memory, 2024
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Transient Light, 2023
You may be transported to a misty evergreen lakeside, a distant coastal cliff shrouded by mist or deep underwater in a turquoise expanse. Amy Albright's subjects can be vast, sometimes veering towards abstract, other times recognisable landscapes, but there is always an element of intrigue and unknown.
A subtle tonal ranges of colour is used, an inky consistency of oil paint caresses the canvas, often creating misty, watery, unclear images that are half imagined, half real.
Layering the paint, starting off loose, Amy uses expressive gestural marks outlining her composition and then begins a timely process of ‘reining it in’ by blending, fading, pouring and glazing the oil paint in numerous layers, as though an atmospheric cloud has enveloped. Sometimes Amy incorporates dendrite branch like details as an anchor in an otherwise ethereal world, or the patterns of the way water finds it way though sand on the shore.
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration from her travels, recently Iceland and the dynamic changing weather, tides and coastline of Cornwall where she lives. The boundaries of where land and water merge is an ongoing and perhaps never ending focus for the artist.
Amy Albright was born in Cornwall, a University College Falmouth Fine Art graduate and has been practicing artist for 14 years, winner of the Midas Award, culminating in a solo exhibition at the prestigious Newlyn Art Gallery. Amy’s work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in New York and has had many solo shows in the UK
Recently Amy was commissioned by SAGA and P&O Cruises to produce large paintings for their luxury cruise ships. A long standing resident at Krowji Studios, Amy lives on the North coast of Cornwall with her husband and two children.
