About

Amanda’s love of art, nature and biology lead her to the Carmarthenshire School of Art where she discovered her creativity through wildlife illustration and ceramics. She later went on to explore symbols and cell structure through the media of glass, computer aided design and film at Middlesex Polytechnic (formerly The Hornsby School of Art).

Her sources and influences are varied and more often through the interface of nature and symbols; how the two speak a language that contains so much more than is written on the surface.  

Language and words are the symbols that express the world we live in and for Amanda they are as fascinating as the code contained in a DNA sequence. She loves the unwritten language in all its forms including sign language and gesture.  

Amanda has found a reverence in the quiet prayers that transmit from Tibetan prayer flags on the wind. This inspired her most recent work in collage, video and photography. She works with multimedia to create pieces that speak in prayers like ‘Prayers in the Wind’ and interact with the elements and the shadows of the natural world in a delicate and ephemeral way.  

Her digital art is spontaneous and playful. It allows colour to speak its own language in 'Written in the Wind,’ like words are being blown away by the wind. Amanda hopes this work will touch the creative spirit in all who come to it.