Artist: Amie Antoniak

Amie Antoniak's paintings are all based on her long-held fascination with sky and landscapes, some of which have been painted, quite literally, from new perspectives. An earlier collection involved a plane flight for inspiration and resulted in stunning landscapes painted from above the clouds for which Amie won a highly prestigious Royal Acadamy Landscape Painting Award. Since then she has taken the idea further and painted a series of paintings inspired by a hot air balloon ride over Yorkshire.

Newer paintings are based on memories of lakes, forests and fields. Amie is often inspired by the time of the year and the changing of the seasons; painting huge vibrant autumn scenes in September, wintery trees in December, and lushes green willow tress reflecting in the water in summer. Trips abroad are also a huge inspirational trigger, Amie will often work from her own photographs on her return to the studio.

Figures are rarely depicted in Amie's paintings, as she prefers 'the viewer to be the only person in the painting', thus trying to make it feel like you could walk right in to it and explore the nooks and crannies of her forests and fields, even get lost in them for a while.

Amie with her new collection in the Artfulness Gallery

Amie says she wants to evoke senses of 'escapism, freedom, space and infinity' and certainly suceeds on dramatic large and smaller scale canvasses.