AMANDA HILL

Amanda Hill was born in Toronto in 1973 to an award-winning Canadian Illustrator named James Hill (1930-2004). Even though Amanda was exposed to painting and drawing since birth and specialized in art in high school, it wasn’t until she moved to BC in 1994 in her 20’s that she would rediscover how fulfilling and exciting painting, drawing and art making actually was. When she began life drawing at an open studio called Basic Inquiry in Vancouver she was hooked. “I went to as many open studio life drawing sessions as I possibly could and I knew in my heart that painting would be my life’s work.” In 1998 Amanda returned to Toronto to attend The Art Center. She soon realized that traveling to places like Manhattan, Washington, Philadelphia and Ottawa to see art and study the great master’s paintings in the flesh would give her the best art education. She shows her work annually at the Toronto Outdoor Art Exhibition and at other galleries in Toronto and Hamilton, ON. Glimpses of her work also appear from time to time in Canadian House and Home magazine.  “I work in oils for their luminous colour and sensual texture. Light, form and line make up the bones of my work, and my subjects range between still life, landscape and figurative studies. I paint ‘observationally’, meaning I paint directly from a three-dimensional subject as opposed to painting from a two-dimensional reference such as a photograph. This direct approach allows me to study and explore the subtle changes in nature over a long period of time in an attempt to capture the essence of my subject.” Amanda currently lives and works out of her studio in Fenelon Falls, Ontario.

TWO RED CHAIRS
24"x32"
OIL ON CANVAS

TRICYCLE
36x36"
OIL ON CANVAS