Amy Bartlett Wright’s paintings emerge from sustained observation of animals and their environments. Her early career in natural science illustration developed an exacting understanding of animal form, behavior and habitat, while decades of plein air painting introduced a more immediate language of light movement, color and atmosphere in depicting land and waterscapes.
Her observation from life while painting inspires a fresh, immediate response artistically, supported by the ability to represent a subject with accuracy. Amy’s paintings uniquely combine perceptual experience with scientific knowledge. She is able to build immersive environments in large scale murals, featuring individual animals within larger systems and habitats. She brings her painted scenery to life with movement, action and scale. She uses plein air painting as a conceptual bridge between observational painting and large 30 foot wide (and larger) murals of environments.