Amy Eichler is a Fayetteville, AR native and full-time acrylic and oil painter who focuses on colorful figures, animals, and anything with eyes and a personality. Her background in dance performance, teaching, and choreography has influenced her work to emphasize expressive color, movement, and character and to appreciate the performance aspect of visual art. Most often incorporating an alla prima approach with a limited color palette of 3-5 paints, Amy pushes color in nature to their most saturated, richest hues and uses contrast and negative space to highlight the subject of her paintings. Amy’s love of teaching has brought her to instruct at multiple locations including Eureka Springs School of the Arts, Crystal Bridges Museum, and virtual and in-person workshops reaching students around the globe. She sells her artwork across the world from her online store www.amyeichlerart.com and across the region in galleries, shops, and local exhibits. Amy holds a degree in Art from the University of Arkansas and is represented by Art Ventures Gallery in Fayetteville, AR. She now resides in Rogers, AR with her husband and two young kids.
why i paint...
“Painting, much like dancing, is a physical self expression to capture the mood, emotion, or personality of the setting or model. Both disciplines emphasize texture in movement, allowing bold and graceful movements to work together to create a visually pleasing dance or painting. It’s my love of dance that has influenced my paintings to emphasize expressive color, movement, rhythm, technique, character and the living form. Over time, my paintings have grown to be more about the subject and less about the setting, abandoning most backgrounds to make room for more contrast and negative space. My relationship with painting is about reacting to what I see in front of me, expressing that feeling it in a way that only I can, and painting it with the emotions and energy that come out in the process.”
Awards
Artists of Northwest Arkansas (ANA) Juried Regional Show Best in Water Media/Mixed Media and Peoples Choice 2011
ANA Juried Regional Show Merit Award 2012
ANA Member's Show Peoples Choice 2016
ANA Juried Regional Show Merit Award 2016
ANA Juried Regional Show Best in Acrylic 2017
ANA Members Show Best in Animals/Florals 2019