Amy Hoedemakers
I walk, I run...........I’m adrift. Then I come back, come back home. This is my land, my rivers, my mountains, my skies. I can breathe here, I’m home.’
Of late Amy's work has become more landscape based and she has come back to explore concepts that she was looking at when she first started painting. She uses sketches, titles, words, memories and photos as reference points for beginnings,but mostly she just immerses herself in the landscape. Amy draws on the emotional response that she wants to resonate in the paintings, working rapidly on many different sized canvases at the same time. It’s the process of painting that she loves, time slides past. She takes off paint, re- applies, steps back, looks, paints more........and this process continues, Amy never tires of it of it.
Amy Hoedemakers graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology and has exhibited in solo and group shows within New Zealand and Ireland. Her work is held in private and public collections within New Zealand, Ireland, England and Australia. Her painting 'Waiting' was featured on the month of March in 'Craigs Investment Partners Calendar, 2015' for emerging and emerged artists and more recently she was a finalist for the ZAFAA18 Awards (Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award 2018). Based in Oxford, where she currently works from her home studio, working towards a new body of work. There is a strong sense of poignancy and beauty to her paintings, her work has many layers to it and is more appreciated with close-up viewing.
Of late Amy's work has become more landscape based and she has come back to explore concepts that she was looking at when she first started painting. She uses sketches, titles, words, memories and photos as reference points for beginnings,but mostly she just immerses herself in the landscape. Amy draws on the emotional response that she wants to resonate in the paintings, working rapidly on many different sized canvases at the same time. It’s the process of painting that she loves, time slides past. She takes off paint, re- applies, steps back, looks, paints more........and this process continues, Amy never tires of it of it.
Amy Hoedemakers graduated in 2002 with a Bachelor of Visual Arts from Nelson Marlborough Institute of Technology and has exhibited in solo and group shows within New Zealand and Ireland. Her work is held in private and public collections within New Zealand, Ireland, England and Australia. Her painting 'Waiting' was featured on the month of March in 'Craigs Investment Partners Calendar, 2015' for emerging and emerged artists and more recently she was a finalist for the ZAFAA18 Awards (Zonta Ashburton Female Art Award 2018). Based in Oxford, where she currently works from her home studio, working towards a new body of work. There is a strong sense of poignancy and beauty to her paintings, her work has many layers to it and is more appreciated with close-up viewing.
