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Amy Elmore 1112 Blackwood Mountain Road Chapel Hill 27516 Memberships: Hillsborough Arts Council, Guild of Charlotte Artists, the Greensboro Arts Council, the Durham Arts Network and the Alamance Artisans. Residencies: June 2025 South Porch Artists Residency https://southporchartists.org/ Exhibitions: C3 gallery Hillsborough, NC Mountains to Sea 1/1/2024-1/1/2025 Durham Arts Council Durham, NC 2024 Summer Member Show The Eno River Mill Gallery Hillsborough, NC Really, Really Local Art Show 2024 8th Annual Plein Air 2024 You can currently see my work at Antonias Restaurant in Hillsborough https://antoniashillsborough.com Teaching: Arts center Carborro, NC Basics of Alcohol Ink 2022-2024 Margaret Lane Gallery Hillsborough, NC Basics of Alcohol Ink 2023-2024

Artist Statement I am an abstract, intuitive painter who uses acrylic paint and alcohol ink to create rich, vibrant pieces. My mother is also a painter so I grew up regularly going to museums and was always surrounded by the process of making art and the smell of turpentine. I do not have an idea of what I am going to paint until I start painting. My paintings come from my memories and there are many layers under each of my paintings to achieve what feelings I am aiming to portray. I use different mediums to give texture to my work and I use bold, big strokes and colors to give my paintings movement and purpose. I leave my paintings and come back to them many times before I feel they are “done”. I use bold colors to depict the beauty of North Carolina’s forests, beaches, marshes and skies. I feel both extremely stimulated and at peace when expressing myself through paint. I believe that color can have a very healing effect on the mind and body. I have always found looking at and making paintings to be incredibly cathartic. We are overstimulated by all of the information we receive online and we are losing our deep inherent connection to nature and one another. There has never been a more important time to make art, see art together, and to allow it to envelope us in its power and joy.

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