SP: HOW DID YOU BECOME INTERESTED IN SURREALISM?
AMY: I think that I have been working spontaneously without censoring my thoughts for as long as I can remember. I was one of those kids who was often spaced out and in what my family calls "Amy's world". Lost somewhere in the recesses of my own imagination. But I was formally introduced to surrealism in college when one of my favorite professors Preston Wadley told me to look up Joseph Cornell.
SP: WHAT MEDIUMS DO YOU PRESENTLY WORK IN ?
AMY: I have worked with various mediums but my favorite is oil. I use watercolor a lot because I can get my ideas out quickly in that medium.
SP: WHAT ARE YOU WORKING ON PRESENTLY?
AMY: Birds and eggs seem to be creeping out of my subconscious lately. I just finished two "There will always be" and "Something to Believe In" and am almost done with a third "The Awakening" all with that
imagery.
SP: WHERE DO YOU PAINT?
AMY: I sometimes paint in my studio, but most often I cover every surface of the house with stuff and crunch myself into a tiny painting space by my computer so I can listen to podcasts while I paint. My favorite place to paint is while on vacation in hotels or in my "studio on wheels" my 4Runner truck with my two dogs with me.
SP: DESCRIBE YOUR CREATIVE PROCESS
AMY: I wake up foggy headed. Drink massive amounts of coffee and turn on a paranormal, gardening, or cooking podcast of some sort and then start filling empty pieces of paper, wood or canvas. If I am organized and in my studio I often light incense first, but I am rarely that organized. My ideas come freeflow and non-stop. I am not the type of artist who has to sit around and think about what to paint. I am the type who has to hurry through doing the dishes or other duties so I can get back to getting all the ideas in my head out in a visual manner.
SP: WHAT ARE YOUR FAVORITE SUBJECTS?
AMY: Animals, houses, mushrooms, trees...anything that is a stand in for humans but not humans themselves.
question from previously featured artist Mihai
Criste: DO YOU THINK IT'S DIFFICULT TO BE AN ORIGINAL ARTIST WITH SO MANY ARTISTIC INFLUENCES TODAY?
AMY: Hmmm...Well since a lot of my work is not "planned" prior to creation and just comes from my subconscious with very little interference from my analytical part of my brain I don't find it all that difficult to be at least somewhat original. Sometimes when I am working on paintings I avoid surfing the web or looking at other artwork and instead go outside for a walk or something like that so that my work will be more truly my own. I don't, however, think that one can completely avoid the influence of others. I am of course influenced by the work of many painters of the past and of many of my friends particularly those whom I share a virtual studio group with called Studio33. But I think that if you have a strong vision and follow your own intuition your voice will come through making the work unique. | 
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