Amy Bernays Art

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...

What are boundaries? Where should they be for me? How do you use them? How do I make them real to others? I had no idea. I knew that I needed better ones, but where do I put...

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...

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...

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 :: ...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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 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 ...

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...

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 am modeling the internal boundaries of my mind. My inside world, I know what it looks like only by touching it with feelings. I guess that I have a big protrusion in the front, ...

Defiantly eating an apple, one foot in childhood, one toe in adulthood; on the precipice of the rest of her life. This is 13 :: Painting :: Fine Art :: This piece comes with an offic...

I want to get across the feeling. The connection that I have with this horse. Her name is Buttercup. She is Beautiful and pregnant and I love her like a pet. And my beautiful daughte...

This is the view from my studio. Ideally one should have a north facing work space, dust free but well ventilated studio with lots of natural light. I have a room in the barn. My p...

Persephone was the daughter of Demeter, goddess of the harvest. One day, while gathering flowers, the earth split open and Hades rose up in his chariot to seize her. He carried her t...

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...

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...

Painted digital print :: Mixed Media :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Sig...

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...

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...

This was the play of early teens. They found large rocks while out in the wilderness. Working together they carried them over to the precipice and flung them over the edge, peering d...

It terrifies me. I can be sitting next to my children, and they can be immersed in another world with out me. On their phones but a thousand mile away. This is part of a series o...

I paint to remind me where I found happiness. If you find something that consistently gives you joy, that thing is valuable and important. However in showing this piece, I can hear my art school professors groaning at the inane. The chocolate box nature of this painting. I now think that was bad advice. Happiness is not Inane. It is divine. It is sublime. It is the point or meaning of life, if there is one. To find happiness; to give happiness to someone; to tell others where happiness lives: this is worthwhile. Swimming horses...

I paint to remind me where I found happiness. If you find something that consistently gives you joy, that thing is valuable and important. However in showing this piece, I can hear my art school professors groaning at the inane. The chocolate box nature of this painting. I now think that was bad advice. Happiness is not Inane. It is divine. It is sublime. It is the point or meaning of life, if there is one. To find happiness; to give happiness to someone; to tell others where happiness lives: this is worthwhile. Swimming horses...

I like the glow of the orange in Butter Cup’s ears. I like the way its very simple in color; yellow and blue, but one can tell her palomino paint markings in the sun dappling her...

To get the accuracy in the pier sketch above, the correct perspective and spacing and such, I used my projector as a light box and traced the photo. Is this cheating? Kind of. But...

Three figures :: Hand Printed Work :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: Signa...

Water color on cotton paper :: Painting :: Impressionist :: This piece comes with an official certificate of authenticity signed by the artist :: Ready to Hang: No :: Signed: Yes :: ...

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 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...

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 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...

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...

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 ...

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 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...

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...

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...

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...

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 ...

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...

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...

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. ...

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...

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

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...

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 :: ...

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...

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...

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. :...