Amy Bernays Paintings

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...

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 :: ...

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...

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 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...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. :...

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...

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...

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...

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

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

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. ...

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 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...

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...

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...