Amy Bernays Art

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 :: ...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 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 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 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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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 :: ...

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 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...

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 :...

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...

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...

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...

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. ::...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

This painting is the memory of childhood, from as close as I could get. This is two generations of a summer day. In the pre world, before there were all the structures that ...

I was thinking about the structure of play, the structure of war, the structure of our society. This started as a painting by my son of jets fighting, a dog fight...