Amy Arntson bases her paintings of water on direct observation, often traveling to National parks in the Great Lakes region as well as to the Pacific Ocean and Persian Gulf. Each painting has a strong sense of design and structure evident through her focus of shape, color, light and texture. Her current works play on the precision of a photograph with her astonishing ability to capture the ambient tranquility of water, but they are indeed copious layers of transparent watercolor.
Arntson has presented talks about her work at international conferences in Sweden, Peru, Spain, Costa Rica, China and England in addition to regional and national venues. She says, “The use of figure/ground relationships throughout art and design of the 20th century fascinates me, and is the structural underpinning of my work with transparent watercolor.”
