Amy Bernays Art

What are boundaries? Where should they be for me? How do you use them? How do I make them real to others? I had no idea. I knew that I needed better ones, but where do I put...

Oil on canvas board, framed :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: ...

the spray and the wind and the wet coat of my horse where one salty breath. I galloped in the cold, I felt the tassels of wet hair and the rhythm of the hoove...

Homage to my enjoyment of my trail rides. I go in the hills of Hollywood, on the beach, up the mountain and gazing down at the city and the sea. This is ruminating on that simple c...

Oil on canvas in a silver wood frame. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Sign...

This is from a photo my daughter took of me getting ready. It is about the view she has of me. :: Drawing :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authen...

This composition is about learning. I wanted to draw comparisons between the two figures in the foreground and the five bar gate in the background. The idea of learning and teaching ...

Oil on canvas :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Loc...

This is a beautiful one-of-a kind large contemporary painting. Like a Lichtenstein for the digital age. The piece ships ready to hang and is signed by the artist on the bottom left...

I was raised a warrior, Here I am battling. The start of everything new, The end of everything past. I am clashing pinks and slim fitting dresses A birthday cake is the g...

Spray paint on canvas. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

I started by asking my children to draw on canvases with some carefully curated pens. They did not draw what I thought they wood. But after ruminating on these pictures in my studio,...

I am modeling the internal boundaries of my mind. My inside world, I know what it looks like only by touching it with feelings. I guess that I have a big protrusion in the front, ...

Defiantly eating an apple, one foot in childhood, one toe in adulthood; on the precipice of the rest of her life. This is 13 :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an offic...

This was the play of early teens. They found large rocks while out in the wilderness. Working together they carried them over to the precipice and flung them over the edge, peering d...

This is the view from my studio. Ideally one should have a north facing work space, dust free but well ventilated studio with lots of natural light. I have a room in the barn. My p...

It terrifies me. I can be sitting next to my children, and they can be immersed in another world with out me. On their phones but a thousand mile away. This is part of a series o...

I paint to remind me where I found happiness. If you find something that consistently gives you joy, that thing is valuable and important. However in showing this piece, I can hear my art school professors groaning at the inane. The chocolate box nature of this painting. I now think that was bad advice. Happiness is not Inane. It is divine. It is sublime. It is the point or meaning of life, if there is one. To find happiness; to give happiness to someone; to tell others where happiness lives: this is worthwhile. Swimming horses...

I paint to remind me where I found happiness. If you find something that consistently gives you joy, that thing is valuable and important. However in showing this piece, I can hear my art school professors groaning at the inane. The chocolate box nature of this painting. I now think that was bad advice. Happiness is not Inane. It is divine. It is sublime. It is the point or meaning of life, if there is one. To find happiness; to give happiness to someone; to tell others where happiness lives: this is worthwhile. Swimming horses...

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest. One day, while gathering flowers, the earth split open and Hades rose up in his chariot to seize her. He carried her t...

I like the glow of the orange in Butter Cup’s ears. I like the way its very simple in color; yellow and blue, but one can tell her palomino paint markings in the sun dappling her...

I want to get across the feeling. The connection that I have with this horse. Her name is Buttercup. She is Beautiful and pregnant and I love her like a pet. And my beautiful daughte...

I wanted to paint something simple. Just color and form. To contemplate the waves, the surfers, the companions on the beach. I wanted to paint it like a rock, it was all supposed to ...

This time it is my sons sketch of a Dunkleosteus. The layering of realities in my experience as a parent. I paint to find my joy. It is my privilege of parenting, looking into his fe...

I like the conversation between the little family in the foreground and the population in the far. I enjoyed describing the fun. I love california ye...

Color. Hot sand. Us and them. Positioning. A thousand relationships playing out in 7 minuets. :: Painting :: English :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticit...

A play between opposites. I enjoyed the teal and gold, I painting the contemporary LA downtown skyline, boarded by the rural hills and horses in the foreground. The rough of the pain...

Water color on cotton paper :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: ...

i love the feet and the rim of the tub. :: Drawing :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Si...

Three figures :: Hand Printed Work :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signa...

Acrylic on canvas board :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

Portrait of a woman :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signatur...

Water color on cotton paper :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: ...

Simple and happy. It was the play and interaction between and birds and the children. They both were playing. They both seemed to enjoy keeping just out of reach. It was a delight to...

Water flow is the most important thing you can learn. The path of least resistance, and how that can change the course of history. It?╟╓s a ranch lesson, an American lesson. This...

Mixed media acrylic painting on stretched canvas :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: S...

It pains me that he draws guns and fighting all the time. I wish it was harmony or happiness. I am reassured by books and others that this is because he is a boy. As a baby, the girls want to nest and the boys want to hit things. I think that they are perhaps programed to do this by the soup of human experience and hormones. We are mammals. Stone Age systems operating in a space age world. And so we parents try to harness those urges, turn aggression to organized sport. Alien shootings into kite...

I am awash with nostalgia and adrift with rose colored glasses. I have been painting our early days at the beach. This is part of a collaboration with my kids, but now they are older...

Please can art be funny? Its a little funny but it is also true and worthy. The relationship here is beautiful. I follow Mark Maggiori. A wonderful handsome co...

Twitter. 41 25 x 12 “ These are actually some kind of magpie. This painting started out as “bird Song”, this is a refinement. It is a simple concept, but very hangable. I keep ...

A first pass :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: No :: :: Canvas :: La...

In collaboration with my daughter who is 8. I spend so much of my day thinking about how to raise a children, how to make them and mold them into good little people. I think this wo...

A child's tantrum in simple childhood colours of pink and blue. It is taken from a snap in a classroom. The whirling dervish, what was in the origi...

I had this board, with the orange pattern, for ages in my studio. It is the perfect cerebral context for this portrait of siblings. I love the relationships. The composition so wonde...

It started as the curly dragon descending into a cave. The phenix rising out from the left is my daughters great creation. I have been lost in homeschooling during the pandemic. Wit...

This one is more back and white. It’s about how we teach our children. Introduce them to powerful tools. We direct them to use it; have fun with it, don’t do harm with it. ::...

I need to gulp when I’m parched, quench that itch, gallop that stretch, catch that ball, beat that team, bite that color of life and gobble it down. I need to feel the heat and swe...

I paint my world, my pride, my children. Though ruminating and representing their lives, I paint to understand the world, and my role within it. How to raise happy, successful, team playing kids. I paint to understand what will bring happiness and what is success. We play polo because we live with horses. And it is the most fun game in the world. And they might be good at it because they live with horses. But it is also laced with wealth and privilege, and why do we also court that? I decided to decorate it in lace. To pretty up the scream. They could be playing soccer or any team sport. Girls are supposed to be pretty, to be polite, to be positive...

Acrylic on canvas :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signature...

Oil on Canvas 20 x 16. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Ca...

The wilderness defends itself. First like a siren on the rocks, it draws us in with beauty; the swaying grasses look smooth and soft and inviting. But their seed heads burrow into ...

Such is the joy of motherhood; like an astronomer watching the birth of stars; I see my daughter woven into the fabric of her world. As my daughter grows through a stage I can now...

ItΓÇÖs something in the equilibrium of their dynamic that I was trying to capture. In their care and the figures that they now cut. Up in the mountains and a ΓÇ£too longΓÇ¥ hot hike ...

It is about the beach, the cool of shade, the rough of sand, the innocence of infancy I like it because it will go in Dillard's Pool House. it replaces Babylon Beach Baby...

Oil on canvas. 10x 8. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Can...

Mixed media acrylic painting on stretched canvas. :: Painting :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: ...

This is a pair for the Blue Date. A slightly larger painting of another scene of a girl on a date. In this one, there is the dubious conviction and storytelling of this interpersonal...

This painting is about the different faces a person has in one body. The mother, the lover, the woman, the worker, grabbing ahold and pushing away. Stretched canvas on board, acrylic...

This is a portrait of fatherhood. of the figures in step. The relationships described in the composition; the shadows following the figure mirroring the father followed by the son. :...

Oil on canvas. 8 x 10 :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang...