Amy Feil Phillips

About Amy Feil Phillips

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Spending many of her early formative years on Martha's Vineyard Island and practicing art from an early age, Amy graduated with honors from Wesleyan University in Middletown, CT, majoring in studio art. She studied art in Paris and Lacoste, France with Sarah Lawrence College, at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago and at the American Academy of Art.

 

Amy's paintings reflect beauty in nature and natural forms. Through landscapes, still lifes and close-ups, she finds ways of using nature as a metaphor for social situations. A landscape of wildflowers may be likened to a community of people. An isolated flower alone in a field could symbolize human isolation.

 

Her simplified, yet realistic depictions of nature emphasize the transformative effects of light, color and focus. Having painted for many years with oils, she has more recently mastered acrylics to achieve the blending properties and subtle color effects of oils.