By
Amy Stone
Piece description from the artist
Pushing paint around and getting lost in the creative process has been my therapy, and color something that can bring me peace. My hope is that my viewers feel the same sense of safety from my work that I do.
My paintings are not perfect. There are unintentional drips and marks. I do not tape my edges and often don't paint my edges. My work is always just a little off kilter and off center, alluding to the notion that balance may be something we can never really find. Or maybe we find it, but it's not what we were expecting it to look like.
My abstracted figurative work alludes to this beauty in imperfection. Body image is something many people struggle with, me included, and as we age everything continues to shift, literally and figuratively. Incorporating the female form into my work has been a way for me to lean into this complicated, difficult yet beautiful process.
Amy Stone was born and raised in the suburbs of New York City. Since relocating to Seattle in 2014 with her family, she has shifted her medium to painting with a focus on abstract expressionism and abstract women. A mom of two young boys, she draws inspiration from even the most mundane tasks in her daily life. Stone says that her work relates her work to the idea of Wabi-sabi; the quintessential Japanese aesthetic. It is a beauty of things imperfect, impermanent, and incomplete. A beauty of things unconventional. This is often how her paintings are described.
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