Amy Twomey

Lives and works in Dallas, Texas

Artist statement

My work is rooted in observation, intuition, and a deep reverence for the natural world. The paintings begin as quiet studies — field notes gathered from memory, landscape, weather, movement, and time spent in the desert and throughout the Southwest. Rather than documenting a specific place, I build visual environments that hold the feeling of being immersed in them: vast night skies, shifting terrain, animal forms, traces of habitation, and the layered rhythms of the land itself. Influenced by the landscapes of West Texas and the visual language of the American Southwest, my work often centers on animals as symbolic witnesses and carriers of memory. Rams, deer, birds, and other forms emerge as both real and imagined presences — connected to cycles of survival, migration, stillness, and adaptation. Repeated markings, embedded shapes, and textured surfaces function like collected fragments or coded observations, echoing maps, petroglyphs, trail markings, constellations, and worn geological patterns. I approach painting as a process of discovery rather than strict composition. Layers are built slowly through accumulation, revision, and response, allowing each surface to evolve organically over time. The work exists in the space between abstraction and recognition, where narrative remains open-ended and intuitive. I’m interested in how a painting can hold both intimacy and expansiveness — how it can feel simultaneously ancient, personal, and environmental. At its core, my...

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