I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.

I was introduced to painting at age sixteen months, when my artist educator mother put me into a bathtub, surrounded by sheets of news print taped to the walls, with tempera paint in baby food jars, each with its own brush, sitting on the edge of the tub. She told me that this is where I should create pictures, rather than drawing crayon images on the newly wallpapered walls of our home. Soon thereafter, I started talking and telling stories about my paintings, which led to the development of writing skills. Painting, therefore, was my original creative method of communication and visual storytelling. Today, I write stories to accompany my paintings and photographs, but rather than taping them to the walls around the tub, magazines such as International Living publish them.

I have always loved animals and they are a major inspiration for the work that I do. I have been painting pet portraits for many years and continue to do so . I also paint landscapes, still life, and even people! But my heart finds delight in all kinds of creatures, both domestic and wildlife, big, small, or in between. I attempt to depict a moment in time, an emotion, or a special quality that deserves our attention and respect . As a retired science teacher I want to honor and celebrate nature . I have been drawing and painting since childhood, and I am a self taught painter - still learning! I predominantly work in oils and sometimes acrylic. I have been greatly influenced by the illustration school of Howard Pyle, which is an amazing heritage to learn from. I would describe my art as contemporary realism. I hope my art is the perfect way to capture nature's beauty, especially in the organisms that live within it, who are a part of it, just as we are.

The most important part of the art adventure for me is the idea of staying as true to my own visions and conceptions as possible. It is the willingness to accept the images that come to me with the most force at any given time leads to divergences in my work. I spent three decades doing figurative art, then, I transitioned to natural objects and onto mainly geometric shapes. Modified geometric shapes are still appearing in the current iconography I am doing. Currently my work explores aspects of the interrelationship of generations. With aging I have watched and experienced the cycle of the gradual shifting of roles, from mother to child and child assuming a parental role with their parent. These events and their resulting emotions are sometimes happy, but sometimes difficult, requiring a change in perspective. Some of the works I derived from this come under the heading of “Invisible Loom” using a descriptive designation: “Invisible Loom: Triangle”. A few under the heading “Gaining Perspective”. They represent the continuity as well as, the beginning and the end of a thread of an existence.

Amy Bruckner is a native of the Philadelphia suburbs and began her career as a mosaic artist 15 years ago. Amy has always been involved with one art form or another, from pottery to watercolor painting. She works with mostly with glass but also incorporates ceramic elements, stone, encaustic and alcohol ink painting. Viewing her work as "painting with glass," she uses a variety of substrates and even uses old, unplayable instruments as a canvas. Amy works out of her home studio near Downingtown, PA. Her work has been shown in juried art shows – Downingtown Fine Arts Festival 2016, Art in Autumn in Weaverville, NC 2015 and 2016 and Chester County Studio Tour 2017, 2018, 2019, and 2020. She has also shown her work at Mala Galleria (now Square Pear) in Kennett Square, PA and the Pallette and The Page in Elkton, MD. Currently her work is displayed at Visual Expansion Gallery in West Chester, PA.

Named using the street address of the residences depicted, I make paintings of the spaces where people live. Convinced that multiple approaches to painting are valid, the imagery in my work balances an impulse to faithfully render household objects against the emphasis on the hand of the artist. The combination of abstraction and representation romanticizes these spaces in a way that invites the viewer to construct their own narrative of the scene. Over the years, I have developed a mixed media technique that allows me to combine the characteristics of watercolor and acrylic paint. Delicate shapes can quickly be sketched in or large blocks of color can be refined with watercolor pencils. The heavier bodied acrylic paint can fully cover existing passages and retains its brushstrokes. Using both types of paint together produces a more nuanced range of painterly effects.

Artist Lynnette Shelley specializes in contemporary mixed media paintings with a focus on animals and wildlife, pattern, archetypes and iconography. Her strikingly unique artworks are highly detailed and her complex compositions are created using a sophisticated process developed from a buildup of multiple layers incorporating techniques in both drawing and painting - from crosshatching to dry brushing to ink splashes and freehand drawing.