Amy E. Kindler
Fine Artist
My joy in creating art is secondary to knowing God intimately through the Spirit and His Word and helping others to experience the love of Jesus. I capture the awesome qualities of God through the character, personalities, interactions, and beauty of people and the world around us. Most of my work is expressed in realism, but sometimes my art becomes more abstract because spiritual reality transcends the physical and needs to be expressed in ways which are not naturally perceived. The idea of contrast, shadow and light, are key in my work. This accentuates the drama and narrative of each piece. Since I have done set-design and sculpture my mind thinks in the round. That translates into my 2-D work.
My great uncle, Warren Wheelock, was a well-known artist. His work was hanging in our house as I was growing up. My parents were wonderful craftsmen. My father worked in stained glass, carved wood, and was generally great with his hands. My mother hooked rugs, did a myriad of crafts, and was a poet. My parents encouraged me by providing art lessons and gifting me art supplies. Because of my uncle’s example and that of my creative parents, I started doing art as a child and selling my art and taking commissions at fourteen. I discovered I could take someone’s desires or ideas and make them visual. Most of my work has been fulfilling specific requests from others in a variety of mediums.
I’ve worked in most painting and drawing mediums. In addition, I have sculpted in bronze and clay, and have done some printmaking. I have also created art which is hand tooled, dyed, and painted on leather. I’ve enjoyed mixing mediums as well.
Traveling about, I have enjoyed visiting many museums, cathedrals and galleries within the United States, Canada, the British Isles, Italy and Holland. I find it a totally different experience to see art as it was originally created and intended to be experienced. One can appreciate the scale and the whole of the art. You can see the vibrancy of the color and witness the use of brush strokes or tool marks, appreciate the tonal balance and movement, and generally enjoy art when viewed in person.
My fine arts education was at the University of New Hampshire, studying theatre, art history, drawing, painting, and sculpture; the Art Students League in New York City where I studied drawing and painting; and the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. At MICA I studied drawing, painting, photography, and graphic design and received a BFA in graphic design.