Amy Thurbon

Amy Thurbon is an emerging abstract artist who paints mainly in acrylics, sometimes with the addition of charcoal and oil bars.

Amy is concerned with the action of painting and the role of the painter’s gesture.  The coast, and her experiences and memories of it are often a starting point for and this is still very much a source of inspiration. However, more recently she has started to draw on many other ideas; it might be a song lyric or even a title, themes from a book, or simply a moment in time.

Visually things that really excite Amy as an artist can be anything from the peeling paint on the hull of a boat to a glimpsed scene.

Inconsequential, unnoticed and accidental marks hold interest for Amy who considers the stories held within them.

Peter Lanyon, Cy Twombly, Howard Hodgkin, Franz Kline, Joan Mitchell, Francis Bacon, Mark Rothko, Raoul Dufy are all inspiration.