Amy Bernays Art

Oil on canvas. 16 x 20 :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...

The inner world of growing up. The lines are blurred as a kid, between the imagined world and reality. We are learning about the sexual hierarchy, the complicated unwritten rules. I ...

This is part of a series of painting I am doing in collaboration with my children. I spend a lot of time thinking about who they are and how to bring out the best in them. I think th...

I spend so much of my day thinking about how to raise children, how to make them and mold them into wonderful little people. I think this work is some of the most important work we d...

Its a battle in a landscape. I was thinking about the patterns of things. The made and the natural, and how they are similar. I was thinking about my world, and where it is headed. ...

To get the accuracy in the pier sketch above, the correct perspective and spacing and such, I used my projector as a light box and traced the photo. Is this cheating? Kind of. But...

Painted digital print :: Mixed Media :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

Painted digital print :: Mixed Media :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

Pencil and oil pastel on pastel paper :: Drawing :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed...

Painted digital print :: Mixed Media :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

Painted digital print :: Mixed Media :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

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

Red wine painted on cotton canvas. These paintings are relics of the night, spilled wine and the rim marks of the glass. The color of the wine may have changed in the years since the...

Red wine painted on cotton paper. These paintings are relics of the night, spilled wine and the rim marks of the glass. The color of the wine may have changed in the years since they...

Painted red wine on cotton paper. These paintings are relics of the night, spilled wine and the rim marks of the glass. The color of the wine may have changed in the years since the...

This is part of a series about learning. I started it months ago but had trouble finishing it. I knew I wanted the textures of the dripping branching and the composition of squares a...

Intaglio monoprint :: Hand Printed Work :: Modern :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: Yes :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...

This is just a painting of joy. perhaps the fraying edges of the lines, the strong contrast, or the searing pink are also comments to this sweet painting of pure love. Parenting is c...

This is another painting that I have been working on for a long time. It uses a technique I learned from Caroline List at Central St Martins. Using transferred photographic image wit...

this is a painting about power, relationships and family. i think it is funny, or fitting, or poetic, that our adult relationships so much depend on those of our first few years. ::...

This is joy. :: Painting :: French :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signature Location: b...

This is a painting of a memory. The idea is that the boy looks at the girl, and that is somehow related to the couple at the end of the path. The stylized muted colors remind me of t...

The title is from the words written across the top by my daughter, aged 5. I used my sons sketch of a shark on top of my painting of a wind swept day at the beach. It is ag...

I was looking for iconic Kernville images. This is the meadow just outside Kernville that was once a golf course, now laid fallow and full of golden wild oats that sway in the breeze...

This is a small gray and pink painting. The bucolic subject of a little boy with his pig and father is referenced with the bright pink felt tip pen I used for the initial sketch. Sec...

This is not a political painting, it is just joy and escapism. I hang in it the kitchen and it reminds me to get out. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an officia...

a dream, a day, a memory. the wind and the sun and the horses :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...

How do I tell her about the subtle pressures that will define her? The urges to protect, to nurse, vs curiosity and the will of life. What do we teach, how do we learn? That are ...

The crazed days of childhood. I love her freedom, the play of paint. And just a few lines describes her bother. Every neon moment of childhood felt a little like this. :: Painting :...

This is glee, the fright and fast and happy and funny of a brothers pinch. A portrait of bother and sister, I wanted the blue and the red to personify their stereo types. :: Paintin...

The beach: sunscreen and pink; neon and salt. I remember the sweet bliss and blisters. The tacit experience, those few baby months I had with her before they grew and changed into di...

This is part of a series of painting I am doing in collaboration with my children. I spend a lot of time thinking about who they are and how to bring out the best in them; parenting....

It looms, like a gate to the wild. Impossibly hot and dry, with lush orchards at its mouth. Gushing all that water, it quenches me after a long hot drive through the desert. :: Paint...

This is part of a series of painting I am doing in collaboration with my children. This time I asked her to draw on my painting of her. I was drawing a strident young woman with a sh...

The title is from the words written across the top by my daughter, aged 5. I used my sons sketch of a shark on top of my painting of a wind swept day at the beach. It is ag...

Somehow it is easier to overpopulate a little painting and get away with it that in a big canvas. This little painting is crowded with life. The menagerie is my daughter’s depiction of her world, the animals within it. It is blued together with the depiction of a small crowd of children looking at the precious thing. We can half make out their forms. Still a little undefined, as things are when you are only half grown up. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

Something in the composition about parenting. What do we steer our little ones toward? What is our guiding light? Our ideal selves? Who should they be in the future? This is painted on her magic landscape. Her sun and tree. Her metallic shimmer. Her little family, her bother and grandpa, looking out together. There is something hopeful and foreboding. A clear look toward the future. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

I love to peer into boyhood. Like an intrepid anthropologist, I pull back the curtains of imaginative play and look into their world of makeshift slingshots and make believe war. The ferocious bite of his dinosaurs, informed by playtime with a little friend and a pet chicken. I like to paint the happy in life. Looking for those thoughts or moments that bring me joy and define my life. I paint my children. Not just their visage, but their being. Their play, their imaginative world as well as their real world. In this series I have the kids paint...

From the series in collaboration with my children. She gets to make choices. She made a rainbow out of purples. Later wept when her Knight was taken, she hurt for the death of her ...

This painting was easy. The kids snuck into my studio. I had prepared some yellow canvases and they had a giggle painting this series of messy splashes. The image that I painted over...

The kids snuck into my studio, this started as a painting they did of me. After homeschooling all spring, it is like I am their whole world. My unintentional features where the borde...

a little tipping the scales I think. The instincts of little boys and politicians alike :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity s...

It is something between the bird in the house and the soaring kite. I little understand this painting. I like the play and cooperation; the compositional pull between my siblings and...

I got to use her own image as the ground. She drew on the canvas first. A girl, not her, just a formula that she has seen from online art class. The eyes are the same, the formula of...

What a complicated world. I remember looking at parents with fear and loathing. Hate and fear for the fullness of their days; their need for rules and regulations. The sharp clear cu...

Such a beautiful day, such joy to gallop along the beach. I love the dry of sand mimicked by the dry of the canvas. The wave seeping into the sand and drying away with the rhythm of...

(on hold for exhibition, The Next Big Thing at Studio Channel Islands 8/6/22) I love this collaboration. They are so lucky to have each other. I love to hear them talk when they d...

She likes to make makes before the zoom sessions on computer home school. She also likes to paint her face and sometimes turn the camera off. What is this homeschool doing? The use...

With is a duet with my daughter, she has been in computer homeschool for a year because of the pandemic. She likes to make makes before the zoom sessions on computer home school. She...

This is part of a collaboration with my kids. It started in lock down when I had no choice. They draw on my canvases and inhabit my every day. I listen to their pretend and play. The...

We have learned so much this lost corona virus year. She has grown strong and the flowers look sweeter and more vibrant. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an of...

I loved making this. Remembering my little girl when she was a baby. That baby blue, the pink flesh, I relish in my nostalgia. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an ...

Just to breath To think To be To open up the door on this life This time This city I watch her naivety as she crashes like a little ship in a storm This is the...

There are so many colors that seem impossible. Up in the hills, looking out towards the setting sun, I feel a warmth and kinship with this city. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This pie...

Something in the dynamic of play. They joy of the mask and the learning how to take turns. A coveted ticket to peer into another world. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes...

We have nature on our doorstep, wilderness just a few blocks away. This city is beautiful. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity si...

An allegory of growing up. Scrambling towards womanhood. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Ha...

A lot of my work is about parenting. A lot of parenting is about knowing where to put and enforce boundaries. I like the metaphor in this scene. It is a portrait of family...

Something in the green emotions. Greed and Envy. I took this pose from social media. Something in the self protecting stance and yet she’s naked and exposed. :: Painting :: Fine...

I ruminate on the act of rearing. These paintings are portraits of my life, both the interior conceptual and exterior physical worlds. The overlay painting if of my shadow as I train a colt at the ranch, our home in the distance. Viviennes painting of a unicorn underneath. This is a love song to the decisions of rearing. Years ago, at a crossroads of my life, I was offered a job as one of the elephant trainers at a zoo in the north of England. It was a fun job interview and I liked the German lady...