About the Artist

My name is Amy L. Rawson, and I'm very glad you stopped by to look at my art. Here's a little bit of information about myself.

I grew up in the Midwest, but I relocated to the east coast in 2000 and currently live in Hartford, CT. I earned a Bachelor of Music degree in 1995 and shortly thereafter realized I much preferred the visual arts. I threw myself into them, picking up books, taking classes here and there, gradually adding to my art knowledge and skills. For me, art is a never-ending learning process. Every new work teaches me something and adds to my skill base.

I work in many different media, because I enjoy so many different kinds of art. My paintings are all oils, and I prefer realism as my painting style. I do additive sculpture using various compounds, most often polymer clays or epoxy putty, both of which allow me to sculpt in my home studio without huge equipment. I'm also a seamstress, having worked as a costumer for an opera department in the past. I create fabric sculptures (also known as art dolls), which are small scale human or animal figures that sometimes incorporate hard-sculpted parts. I often hand-dye my own fabrics for these projects. I've also recently begun learning to paint digitally, working in Photoshop and/or Painter on a Wacom tablet. And, of course, I draw, with my fantasy portraits in pencil being my most popular illustrations.

These galleries contain only a small selection of my art. If you'd like to see what I am working on from day to day, you can check out my LiveJournal, which I use as a daily art journal and progress record for many projects.