Amy Bernays Paintings

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 ...

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 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 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...

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...

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...

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

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...

Like little girls are a herd of wild horses, their energy needs to be corralled, she needs to learn the rules. The grid of bars, the compositions divided by the imposing father figur...

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 :: ...

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,...

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. ...

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...

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...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 :: ...

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...

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...

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...

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....

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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 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...

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 ...

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...

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 ...

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

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 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...

both a noun for power, force, strength. And the past of May. This is a pair with a similar painting of his sister. This painting comes hot on the heals of a painting I did and quick...

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...

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 :: S...

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

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 ...

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 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 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...