Amy Magee

Amy is a British painter, based in the South of France, creating large-format oil paintings that emerge from a deeply lyrical engagement with the past and an embodied response to the present.

“My work lives at the intersection of intuition and art historical memory—large format oil paintings that emerge from a deeply lyrical engagement with the past and an embodied response to the present. I draw from the compositional grandeur of Renaissance art, the ornamental sensibilities of Rococo painting, and the reverence for light found in Impressionism. Yet these references are not blueprints but whispers—subtle sparks that dissolve into gesture,texture, and atmosphere through a process of digital and visual synthesis.”

The Provençal landscape have infused her palete with breath and luminosity. Drawn back to the classical, she began exploring trompe l’œil, or “to deceive the eye”—a technique woven into French visual culture—to introduce ilusion into contemporary abstraction. One can find a new dynamism and lightness in her compositions: fleeting flourishes, petal-like forms, and atmospheric veils that seem to be caried by wind. The compositions envelop the viewer in an environment that is both deeply present and curiously placeless.

The work invites comunion – a ‘place’ for shared vulnerability between the artist and viewer. Each brush mark says: Here is where I was. Here is how I moved for this moment—giving the viewer permission to be just as present.

These paintings are not naratives, but experiences.They are ambiguous spaces to dwel and to feel, where one is not looking at something, but inside something.