Profile
Amy Albright
Winner of the Midas Award and Outstanding prize at the International E.Sun awards in 2022. Amy’s work has been exhibited internationally and she has had many successful Solo shows in the UK.
Collections of Amy’s work are held World wide, more recently Amy was commissioned by SAGA and P&O Cruises to produce large paintings for their luxury cruise ships.
Primarily a landscape painter, you may be transported to a misty evergreen lakeside, a distant coastal cliff shrouded by mist or deep underwater in a turquoise expanse. Amy Albrights subjects can be vast, sometimes veering towards abstract, other times recognisable landscapes, but there is always an element of intrigue and unknown.
A subtle tonal ranges of colour is used, an inky consistency of oil paint caresses the canvas, often creating misty, watery, unclear images that are half imagined, half real.
Layering the paint, starting off loose, Amy uses expressive gestural marks outlining her composition and then begins a timely process of ‘reining it in’ by blending, fading, pouring and glazing the oil paint in numerous layers, as though an atmospheric cloud has enveloped.
An explorer and lover of the natural world, the underwater world and the ever changing elements; Amy takes inspiration from her travels, recently Iceland and the dynamic changing weather, tides and coastline of Cornwall where she lives. The boundaries of where land and water merge is an ongoing and perhaps never ending focus.
2004 – 2007 University College Falmouth, Ba (hons) in Fine Art.
2003 – 2004 Exeter College, BTEC Diploma in Foundation studies in Art and Design.
Solo Exhibitions
2022 Natural Affinity, Beside the Wave, Falmouth, Cornwall
2021 Watermarks, Artwave West, Dorset.
2020 Underlying edges, Beside the Wave Falmouth, Cornwall
2018 Artwave west, Dorset
2015 Above and below Artwave west, Morcombelake, Dorset
2008 Newlyn Art Gallery, Cornwall. Transition Solo exhibition as Midas award winner.
2008 Gallery 49, A Vein Thread , High Street, Falmouth, Cornwall.
Selected Group Exhibitions
2023 – Unfamiliar Landscape, Falmouth Art Gallery
2022/2023 – E.Sun award winners exhibition, Taipei City, Taiwan.
2021- New gallery artists, Sarah Wiseman gallery, Oxford.
2020,- Let the light in, Summer house Gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
2020- Luminous, Artwave west, Dorset
2020 – Selected for the Imagine, exhibition, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall
2019- Blue mind, 3rd on 3rd Gallery, The Reg Lenna Center for the Arts, Jamestown, New York, USA.
2019 – A good night, Nocturnes for night owls, Falmouth Art Gallery, Cornwall.
2018- Tutors show, 80th Anniversary of St Ives School of painting, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2017 – I am woman, Summerhouse gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
2017 – Presence, Artwave west, Dorset
2016 – Land and sea, Beside the wave Falmouth
2016 – Beside the wave London, Krowji Artists
2016 – Pipe dream The Lantern Gallery, Worcester University, Worcester.
2016 – Searching for enlightenment, Bils and Rye, Nuttington, Yorkshire
2016 – Unseen landcape, Artwave west, Dorset
2016 & 2015 – September Collective Mcallister Thomas Fine Art, Godalming, Surrey,
2015 – NSA 293, Penwith Gallery, St Ives
2014/2015 – Mixed exhibitions Artwavewest and Summerhouse Gallery
2014 – Heseltine Gallery, Truro – NSA Flux, exhibition.
2013 – Autumn & Spring exhibition at Artwavewest, Dorset.
2013 – CCANW, Haldon Forest, Exeter, Devon.
– Resonate, Summer house gallery, Marazion, Cornwall
2011 – Two person with Sonia Stanyard at Artwavewest, Dorset
2010 – Tresco Gallery. Affordable art fair, London
2010/2011 Open Space gallery, Penryn, Cornwall.
2009 Exchange Gallery, Penzance Double Vision, curated by Gareth Edwards.
2009/2010 Tresco Gallery, Isles of Scilly. Autumn collection.
2009 Artwavewest, Morcombelake, Dorset. Two person show with Martin Gould.
2008 Mixed show at Artonomy Fine Art, Truro, Cornwall
2007 Drawing exhibition, Surface Gallery, Nottingham
2007 The Midas Award finalist exhibition at Artonomy Fine art, Truro, Cornwall
2007 Selected for the annual St Ives September Festival exhibition.
2007 Sunrise with Seamonsters at Trinity Buoy Wharf, London.
2022 – Winner of the E.Sun bank Art Awards (Outstanding award) Taipei City, Taiwan.
2021- Artist in Residence, Starlight, Mayes Creative.
2017 – Shortlisted for the NOA (National open Art Prize)
2013 – Elected member of NSA – Newlyn Society of Artists.
2013 – Runner up for the Peoples vote. Dulwich Picture Gallery, London.
2010 & 2013 – Artist in Residence at Beaford Arts Academy and Tresco Gallery.
2009 & 2010 Artist in Residence at Tresco, Isles of Scilly.
2008 – Winner of the Midas Award, contemporary art award in Cornwall.
2021- Artist in Residence, Starlight, Mayes Creative.
2010 & 2013 – Artist in Residence at Beaford Arts Academy and Tresco Gallery.
2009 & 2010 Artist in Residence at Tresco, Isles of Scilly.
