Artworks by Amanda Horvath

Amanda Horvath is a contemporary artist with a distinctive perceptual language rooted in landscape. Her work focuses on woodland and nature, with a distinctive emphasis on light, colour, texture and atmosphere. The paintings sit comfortably between abstraction and representation. Amanda graduated with a First-Class BA (Hons) in Fine Art from Sheffield Hallam University before establishing a career in art education. Today, she is a full-time artist working from her Peak District studio, where the surrounding landscape informs her expressive and atmospheric paintings.

“My paintings are about peaceful places and quiet healing woodlands. I attempt to create uplifting work bringing a feeling of optimism and freshness, capturing the spirit of these tranquil places. Inspired by ethereal light and dramatic contrasting shadows, I have a passion for expressing nature in beautiful colours, whilst imparting a feeling of calm. This affinity with nature has grown from early childhood and my past experiences."

Working from observation of nature Amanda often begins a canvas en plein air, finishing in her studio. Harnessing optical mixing techniques employed by the impressionists and using a mixture of impasto, scumbling and glazing, she works expressively in acrylics or oils. With a palette knife or other mark making techniques the work is created intuitively and quite freely, so the end result is spontaneous and fresh developed as a natural process. The paintings originate from real places and woods nearby continuing the process with photographs, drawings, memory and imagination. Each painting develops layer upon layer until reaching a natural conclusion, forming contemporary paintings that lie somewhere between abstraction and realism. Her paintings have found homes with private collectors worldwide.