Amy Bernays Art

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...

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...

For those who know, you can instantly recognize the hill behind them. so HOLLYWOOD Mostly itΓÇÖs about the arch of the horses neck and the journey the rider...

For those who know, you can instantly recognize the hill behind them. so HOLLYWOOD Mostly itΓÇÖs about the arch of the horses neck and the journey the rider...

A portrait of relationships, perhaps a homage to the family dynamic. Grounded in the pink boots; guarded by Blue. The cat isnΓÇÖt part of the source photo. ...

Such a contemporizeing element, the girl in the mask. The unescapable nod to our pandemic life now. This is part of a series I do in duet with my children. It is her drawing of the b...

This is part of a series of work I do in duet with my children’s paintings. My process with painting is to ruminate on life. Childhood is both the present, and the ghosts; I see memories of my own childhood. I want to inhabit their strong imaginations, bursting into our experience. Blurring the line between real and imaginary. This is my little girl and her dragon. Her work is more about texture and form than his. Even though it is his subject, the feminine is throughout. I love being her mum...

I love the beach. The endless horizon of no plans and timeless reality. All there is, dragons, moats, sand castles and the sea. This is part of a series of paintings of motherh...

This is part of a series of work I do in duet with my children’s paintings. My process with painting is to ruminate on life. Childhood is both the present, but and the ghosts. I se...

So much joy and love in one cake. I just wanted to relish the treasure that is loving them. Its warm and pink and happy. :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an official ...

This is a portrait of family life. The fullness of imagination within.I start a painting with colored ground, a full tummy and good working pens. It is priming for my children to scr...

This is the duet of my children’s painting and mine. This submarine has been rocking about my studio for too long. It’s bomb is her, she flings a stone out into the river. The...

It is a double edged sward. A coin with two sides. My son spends his homeschool days busying his hands making sculptures out of cardboard. It was cars and planes, now its always guns. It breaks my heart but it is his creativity and I am divided in my feelings. Spending 6 hours in front of a computer when you are 10, I understand his need to do something with his hands. I would need to if I were in his shoes. So I provide ample cardboard and inspiration, glue guns and rubber bands. Perhaps he makes cardboard guns as an object of power. Like the cave people painting the pray they wanted to capture, he makes something that would give him power. My daughter has unicorns. She has the lyrics to her song. She has sitting still and behaving well and writing and reading as her power. In todays world, perhaps the female sex...

I saw these youngsters at a roping in Bakersfeild. I see my son look up to them. He wants to be them, the older boys. I really recognize that admiration of the bigger boy; the powerf...

I like it most when I am ruminating on beautiful days but this is something I have to see. I love that he is so creative, I wish it was in making rainbows and unicorns. :: Painting...

This is the love of summer. The memories of childhood. The learning of values. The course and diversion of water. A contemplation on the lessons learned on hot summer days. :: Pa...

What is he thinking, what are they thinking? How do you make sense of the world through arms? How foreign this minds is that was made from me? :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece...

I keep thinking of puberty. Of growing up. Of family and knowledge. This work you have to think also about the back of it. It is 20 years in the making, as are my children. :: Pai...

This is my summer. A study in color and light. Of form and whimsy. Chasing a feeling, a memory, a moment past when it was all okay. :: Painting :: Imp...

This is Rules and Regulations. I enjoy his play and humor while also contemplating the human condition of childhood. I am to perfect the skill is in setting up the framework that th...

It started as a drawing of war, and tanks, and fighters, and accompanied with the bombs and shooting noises. My son plays in drawing. He creates a world, populates it with characte...

This is a Hollywood cowboy. Again I have the children paint on prepared canvases. We are plagued with helicopters buzzing the hills, carrying tourists looking at the Hollywood sign a...

This is a metaphor. It is pieces of other paintings I have done. The rocks are closeups of the rivers and streams on Dartmoor where is spent my childhood. The deck and the house, the...

I love to wonder as deeply as they do in play. The world comes alive with the possibilities that you put out there. In my children’s play, one will announce a reality; “we are fl...

It was an epiphany, It was at a time when I was changing who I would be. The church was also the preschool my children were going to; staring at that wall marked the start of my thre...

This is acrylic on canvas board with mixed media. It is a sweet tale of a day. :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by...

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 the green face of jealousy. Digital print on to canvas, sized, and then painting in oil paint on top :: Painting :: Contemporary :: This piece comes with an official certifi...

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...

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

This small and intimate painting is oil on sized canvas with a digital photograph underneath. The entire surface is painted other than the collection of eggs clustered in her dress. ...

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

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...

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

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

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

Charcoal and acrylic on canvas :: Drawing :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :...

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

This small blue painting is about how we create a little world for our children. provide them with the opportunity to experiment and discover the properties and rules of nature. I learned all the shortcuts to solving problems by watching the way water falls...

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 :: :: C...

Oil on canvas. 10x8. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signat...

Oil on canvas. 8x10. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: Canv...

This small psychological painting continues the themes of family and growing up. The us and them, the camaraderie of boundaries and how those family structures shape us into the peop...

This is a portrait of the mother (the pair to The Father). It is a little more complicated then its male pair. The reflections are there, but undulated and more complex. The subtle a...

this is a study in leaning, how we parent and feed little minds :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: ...

This is a rumination on lessons and school and how we learn. My thought behind the composition is how we learn. We imprint or reflect our surroundings, within a structure. Like the b...

Oil on canvas. 25 x 18. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: No :: :: C...

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

This is Victory 12x16. 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...

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,...

A while back we had a playdate at our ranch, on one day we had girls over, the kids played in one place and made nests. On the other day we had boys over and we roamed the ranch maki...

We learn about the complicated unwritten rules of society as a child. That story informs our adult life. one can get stuck at a point in growing up and sometimes never get past it. ...

Mammoth momma and the dinosaur boy. The composition is about parenting. The telling of how I understand the world to the next generation. The evolution of ideas. The uploading of kno...

I spent the afternoon with my friend in Nevada as he roped in the early afternoon with his son. :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of aut...

These paintings are studies in my children’s behavior. Forming and cementing of personal boundaries. Drawing of lines not to be crossed, the sibling hierarchy that will form their ...

these paintings are about learning and childhood. The things we learn from watching streams and diverting the course of water. The power of might :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This...

This is the trinity, my beauty of the green bath we took one Sunday. It is part of a pair, on the Saturday we roamed the ranch, a militia of long sticks and...

This comes from a series of work on parenting. I pop in front of the kids canvases and pens and paint. I then work onto those canvases. Sometimes they work into mine. this is a g...

The first step in making this painting was creating my daughter. And I told her about how we keep track of who sires us. And I gave her and her bother on a Wednesday after school, sh...

This is about parenting. Drawing boundaries and enforcing them. It is about protection and husbandry. The compositing is a portrait of family. ::...