Painting what lingers
Meet Amy Lauren
I was born into a particular kind of light — the heavy, golden kind that presses itself through pine trees and pools in the low places of a Mississippi afternoon.
Growing up in rural Mississippi, I understood early that the land was not a backdrop. It was presence. It asked something of you.
I spent my childhood learning the moods of that place — the way a summer storm could turn the sky green before it broke, the long hush of a Sunday morning, the way distance looks different in the South, softer and further all at once. Those aren't memories I return to so much as ones I never left.
My paintings live in that country. Drawing from the Impressionists, I work in color the way memory works — feeling first, then form.
I juxtapose the bold against the muted, the wild against the still, trying to hold something of what it means to belong to a landscape, to carry a place in your hands long after you've left it.
My work is available for private collectors, designers, and select collaborations.
BA Painting & Sculpture · University of Mississippi, 2010
Louisville, Mississippi · b. 1986