AMY LEWIS
Watercolor Artist
Amy Lewis paints to cultivate joy and an appreciation for the beauty that is around us.
Her colorful, realist paintings are snapshots of glamorized ordinary life.Amy is mostly self taught in watercolor and oil painting. She started this business in the hopes of adding more joy and beauty to the world. "There's aesthetic joy in the cheap foods we eat and in the hands we work with but we often overlook it. Luxurious settings and richly decorated people matched with common objects and foods creates a juxtaposition designed to highlight things we take for granted. I am inspired by everyday surroundings, editorial photography and the paintings of aristocracy in the 18th-19th centuries."
"I’m constantly exploring ways to portray ordinary life as glamorous. Art gives us eyes to see.
Meet Amy and Erica
Reception : April 20th 4pm-7pm
ERIKA NORRIS
Colored Pencil Artist
Inspired by personal experience, research, and everyday visual culture, my artwork investigates our complicated
relationships with food.
As a woman, I cannot remember a time when I wasn’t on a diet. Food has always been my obsession and
increasingly, a cultural one.
In my most recent works, I am examining my anxiety, desire, and internal conflict around food and eating. I focus mostly on sweets—often from my childhood—because of the nostalgia and comfort they bring me as well as the myriad of dichotomies they embody.
My artwork functions similarly to a journal and documents my emotional experiences with food. The personal nature of the work lends itself to intimate and delicate pieces while external inspiration brings bright colors and a sense of distortion. Through my art, I encourage viewers to contemplate and explore their own relationships with food.