Amber Stanton

Amber's signature works include sensual, fanciful depictions of herself, women, and animals. Although she uses many bright colors, there is always a sense of something lurking, something lying beneath the surface. Within the narratives a tension between opposing forces can be seen. She believes that imagination and reality are of equal importance and enjoys the way the two interrelate and shape each other. Her art offers the viewer an organic, surrealistic, softly refined and deeply enchanting experience.
Amber began painting and illustrating in early childhood. She was raised partly in New York City and partly in Connecticut. Growing up in the New York of the 1980s she admired the street and graffiti art, as well as the fine art displayed at museums. While in Connecticut she absorbed a deep appreciation and life-long respect of nature.
Her interest in figurative art lead her to study at the Lyme Academy in Connecticut where she practiced the painting techniques associated with the early European Renaissance. After two years there she transferred to the School of Visual Arts in Manhattan where she earned her BFA in painting.
As she moved deeper into what became a large body of self portrait work she began to notice patterns. She found that symbolism was naturally emerging in her work and revealing truths about her life; past, present, and future. Many of her works are symbolic of her own subconscious readings of her hologram. She sees her images as clues to a bigger picture, another piece to the puzzle. Her goal is to create unique images that communicate an inner truth that connects with universal truths.
She works with oils, acrylics, color pencils, and watercolors. The paint on her wood boards and canvases can be finely detailed, thick and textural, or smooth and polished, and in other areas can be thin, scuffed, and even scraped. The pencil and ink strokes on her paper or wood drawings can be energetic and rhythmic as well as delicate and flowing.