Amy Winstanley’s work merges observations with intuitive mark-making to create her ethereal abstractions. In her process, she oscillates between spontaneous gestures and conscious painterly expressions. She creates space through layers of oil paint and builds shapes and colors that immerse the viewer into a place where there is merely a suggestion of reality. Winstanley uses painting to think through her personal experiences of love, loss, and the act of painting itself—the movement of her hand and paintbrush on the canvas that creates something from nothing.

Amy Winstanley was born in 1983 in Dumfries, UK, and currently resides in Glasgow, UK. She earned her MA from the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam (2019) and her BA in Sculpture from the Edinburgh College of Art (2005).

Her work has been in recent solo and group exhibitions like Moral Limb (solo) at Stallan-Brand in Glasgow, UK (2021); Grief Bruise (solo) at Lunchtime Gallery in Glasgow, UK (2021), Potluck at Gallery 17717 in Seoul, Korea (2021); and To All Our Absent Dialogues at Warbling Collective in London, UK (2020).

Amy was nominated for the Sluijter Prize for Painting in 2019 (Netherlands), was the recipient of the Hope Scott Trust award (2014), and won the Creative Scotland Visual Arts Award twice (2010 and 2014).