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Wet Sand
Pastel
Image Size 10 x 10
Framed 16 x 15.75
$900 |
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“This is Nature’s composition, which spoke to me because
of its monochromatic nature and the challenge of rendering
the evidence of recent water flow through wet sand.” |
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Offshore Wind
Pastel
Image Size 9.5 x 9.5
Framed 14.125 x 14.125
$900 |
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“There’s nothing quite like the spray peeling
off the top of the waves when there’s a stiff offshore wind.
Its intricate beauty is hard to resist.” |
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Washashores
Pastel
Image Size 6.5 x 8.5
Framed 11.125 x 13.375
$750 |
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“I just thought this was a beautiful
quahog sitting upon the undisturbed sand, with a bit of sand
and a few teaspoons worth of water from the sea still inside,
glistening in the sun. That deep purple was quite appealing.” |
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Rolling in Again
Pastel
Image Size 12.5 x 14.5
Framed 19 x 21
$1,600 |
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Reflections
Pastel
Image Size 7.5 x 7.5
Framed 13.25 x 13.25
$800 |
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“This is a still life set up courtesy
of nature — a bayside tidepool. I was drawn to it partially
because it included so much red, but mostly because of the
incredible reflections with the wave having just receded
and having left a thin sheen of water over everything. There's
lots of seawater still there, and making the texture of the
rocks show through a water reflection was an incredible technical
challenge. It was critical to capture the reflection of the
rocks on each other, and of the bright blue sky in all that
seawater.” |
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Show Off
Pastel
Image Size 10 x 9.5
Framed 18 x 17.5
$950 |
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“This prickly pear cactus grows all over my yard, and has
since I was a little girl here. It’s a nuisance much
of the time (lots of little hair thorns that are hard to see
and even harder to remove, but hurt like crazy). However, when
this cactus blooms, the yard erupts into a yellow frenzy which
is just spectacular. With this piece I decided to try a bit
looser of a style and play with a wide variety of colors, in
keeping with the flashiness of the cactus.” |
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Wave Dancers
Pastel
Image Size 9 x 9
Framed
17.5 x 17.5
$900
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“This is Nature's composition
along the edge of the shore. What attracted me to it was
the unique pattern on the main rock, which reminded me of
the petroglyphs done by Native Americans on stones in the
Southwest. (for all we know they did them here, too, but
the weather here would have erased any evidence). I see a
joyful figure playing along the curl of the wave. I feel
a spirit in that stone.” |
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30 Knots Straight Out
of
the Northwest
Pastel
Image Size 18.5 x 22
Framed 26.5 x 30
$3,800 |
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“I have been walking this Cape
Cod bay beach (a local one, for me) all of my life, and this
is a typical late summer/early
fall scenario where the weather pattern sets up with clear
crisp air and a stiff breeze out of the northeast. When the
wind gets to a certain level, the water’s surface begins
to whip up into this white froth that runs in straight lines
with the wind. The waves also chop up like you see here. At
the time I decided to tackle this, I was looking for a challenge
in terms of technique, and I was really inspired by not only
the sheer beauty of this type of scene, but the challenge of
rendering the intricacy needed to convey the water pattern
accurately. When I look at this piece now, as when I was working
on it, I can feel that wind, and the spray of water against
my face. I can hear the roar of the water whipping into that
frenzy as if I were standing there.” |
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Shell Gazing II
Pastel
Image Size 4 x 5
Framed 12 x 12.5
$600 |
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“This painting was inspired by
the intricacy and mathematical perfection of the spiral on
moon snail shells. Every single one has the same exact spiral,
increasing at the same exact rate in the same direction (always
clockwise as you look at the top). Add to that all the intricate
growth lines and the subtle colors and you have an elegant
beauty. I did one with a yellowish cast, as many are, and
one with a bluish pink cast, as you often find in older shells.” |
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July
Pastel
Image Size 10 x 14
Framed 18 x 22
$1,400
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“This piece was inspired
by the sheer joy of a little fellow just tearing back and forth
at the waveline. This little guy did this for nearly a half
hour — never
darting in closer to the waves, but never fully retreating
either.” |
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Low Tide Along the Marsh
Pastel
Image Size 9 x 13
$1,300
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“This piece resulted
from a spring walk along the marsh edge at Audubon Wildlife
Refuge in Wellfleet. I was taken by the seemingly endless
waves of lush marsh grass with the distant thin line of land
and water. I aimed to capture the light rustle of the breeze
in that grass.” |
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Stormy Seas
Pastel
Image Size 16 x 21.5
Framed 24 x 29.5
$2,500 |
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“We’re all inspired
by this kind of scene — the turbulence, the richness
in color and the sheer energy of the
ocean around a storm, which in this case was largely offshore.” |
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Solitude
Pastel
Image Size 18 x 24
Framed 26 x 30
$4,200 |
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“This tree sat isolated
out in the Provincelands, with nothing around for shelter
or companionship. I admire its rugged existence. I did the
piece for the beauty, and to challenge myself with the shadow
of the leaves (there are over 30 colors in that shadow if
you look carefully!). A little glimpse of the water in the
distance seemed to complete the scene.” |
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 Truro artist Amy
Katherine Sanders, credits the serenity
and beauty of the pine woods, ocean and bay, beaches and dunes
of the Outer Cape as the inspiration
for most of her art. Her artistic style creates velvety,
seamless, richly detailed compelling paintings.
Amy is largely a self-taught artist. She did formative studies
with outstanding art teacher Ron Parent for several years and
has also painted under the direction of guest artists at Truro's
Castle Hill Center for the Arts.
She considers pastel to be her primary
medium, although originally she worked in watercolors and
was a member of the Connecticut
Watercolor Society for many years. She still paints occasionally
in watercolors, and even acrylics, but she finds the richness
of pastel color and its flexibility allow her to capture more
expressively the beauty and depth of the scenes that she is
drawn to paint.
Amy is an award winning artist
and Signature Member of the Pastel Society of America (PSA).
In addition, Amy is a respected art juror/judge in the New
England art show circuit. Her paintings have been sold in
a series of auctions to benefit Truro's Castle Hill Center
for the Arts and the Truro Historical Society. She has exhibited
in galleries
in Connecticut and on the Cape, and has been represented
by the Addison Art Gallery of Orleans, Massachusetts since
1998.
She has done commissioned work for Seamen’s Bank of Cape
Cod, Blue Gateways Inn, The Depot, and the Wellfleet Congregational
Church of Wellfleet, MA, the Truro Historical Society and the
Christian Union Church of Truro, and numerous private clients.
She continues to welcome commissioned work, including landscapes
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Artist’s Statement
While painting I become drawn right into the scene. It’s
an extraordinary sensation where I can literally feel the
sand between my toes, smell the salt
air, or hear the roar of the ocean. To bring that sensation to others, that
is what it is all about.
People often remark that my paintings look just like photographs
and while I think its meant as a compliment (and I take it
as such), I don't see them that way at all. Photographs have
a flatness to them and a sharpness to the edges — things
in the distance are just as sharp, and just as rich in color
and
detail as things closer to the camera — that make them
clearly photographs. Many of my paintings are highly realistic
for
sure, but the edges are softer, their colors are richer (most
vividly noticeable in the shadows or darker areas), and there
is more depth to them than one can find in a photograph (things
in the distance have much smoother edges, less detail, and
a bluer color, more typical of how the eye sees than a camera).
While I often use photographs, or a series of photographs,
for reference, I never feel the richness of emotion or the
spectacular beauty of a place when I look at a photograph,
that I feel when I look at a painting. |
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Awards
- Honorable Mention, 10th Annual
Pastel 100 Competition
for “Passing
Offshore” (13.75 x 12) in Landscapes
and “The
Collection” (9 x 12) in Still Life
April, 2009 issue of The Pastel Journal
Publications
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International Artist: Citing her exceptional eye for composition
and mastery of the pastel technique, International Artist
magazine pursued Amy Sanders to write three articles for
their respected publication, which is distributed worldwide.
The first of Amy's articles will appear in the December/January
issue. It will cover the controversial topic of whether or
not photographs are a legitimate tool in an artists arsenal.
The next article, scheduled for the February/March issue,
will cover the use of multiple layers of contrasting color
to build richness into a pastel work. The third, scheduled
for April/May, will discuss the use of a wide range of values
to create depth.
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The Pastel Journal: Amy’s work will also appear in The
Pastel Journal’s February issue as representative of the
region of New England, in an article on regional pastel painters.
She is scheduled to be a featured artist in that publication
as well sometime in mid to late 2011.
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American Art Collector: Amy was featured in an article
titled, “Women Who Paint Show Opens in Cape Cod,” in the
July, 2006 issue of American Art Collector magazine.
Exhibitions
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August feature shows 1998-Present, Addison Art Gallery,
Orleans, MA
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“Pastels By Invitation: An Intimate Group of Nationally
Recognized Pastelists,” August 2009 and August 2010,
Creative
Arts Center, Chatham, MA
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Second Annual Pastel Painters Society
of Cape Cod Exhibit August, 1997,
Creative Arts Center, Chatham, MA
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University of Massachusetts Medical
Center Gallery, Jan.-March, 1997,
Worcester, MA
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Quinebaug Valley Arts Center Nov.-Dec., 1996, Southbridge,
MA
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First Annual Pastel Painters Society of
Cape Cod Exhibit August, 1996
Creative Arts Center,
Chatham, MA
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