Amanda Thompson

Amanda came to enamelling through a Fine Art and Painting background. Having gained a PGCE in Art teaching, a BA Hons sculpture and an MA in Fine Art and Painting (First /Distinction) she went on to take classes with Pat Johnson at West Dean College, Chichester where she learnt to use the technique of sifting enamel on to copper bowls and panels. This has led to a painterly approach evident in some of her more abstract work where she embraces irregularity and accident, rescale and slumping; multi- layering and fusing transparent and opaque enamels with a confident approach towards a final outcome reminiscent of the gestural paintings of Gillian Ayres, Albert Irvin, Pierre Bonnard,Howard Hodgkin and Braques.

At the opposite end of the spectrum, Amanda works in a precise and carefully measured way as seen in her 'Garden', 'Grass stems' and 'Tidal pool' series of bowls, dishes and at panels. Here she echoes the natural forms of the South Kent coastline; its flora and fauna, landscape and seascape, using leaves, seaweed and owers as motif to explore ideas about loss and change in specic places. She hopes to draw peoples attention to the marginal, the small and the easily overlooked, in an attempt to re-connect people with nature and the landscape around them.

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