Amy Albright | Waters Edge

About

Amy Albright is fascinated by the place where water meets land, this boundary is where she finds harmony among the elements and inspiration for her hauntingly beautiful work.

Based in Cornwall, her paintings in the new collection are inspired by the Helford River near Falmouth. The riverbank altering with the flow of the water, shaping the landscape, edged by trees as it weaves its way towards the ocean.

Her paintings have a dreamlike quality, with layers of misty light, features emerging and disappearing through delicately layered paint, half real, half imagined. A dendrite branch creates an anchor in her otherwise ethereal world, as she explores the patterns of water as it caresses the sand creating the shore.

Amy, a keen paddle boarder, in the summer months travels along the coastline looking back at the land, exploring inlets and quiet beaches, feeling the power of the tides.  She has an innate connection to the watery landscape of her work, transporting you to a misty evergreen lakeside, a distant coastal cliff shrouded by mist or deep underwater in a turquoise expanse.

Amy Albright was born in Cornwall, is a University College Falmouth Fine Art graduate and has been practicing artist for 14 years. She was the winner of the Midas Award 2007, culminating in a solo exhibition at the prestigious Newlyn Art Gallery in 2008.  Amy's work has been exhibited internationally, most recently in New York and has had many solo shows in the UK, she began exhibiting at Sarah Wiseman Gallery in 2021.

Recently Amy was commissioned by SAGA and P&O Cruises to produce large paintings for their luxury cruise ships.  Amy lives on the North coast of Cornwall.