Amy Cline Printmaker and Painter

Amy

Cline

Printmaker & Painter

About amy

Amy Cline is a Kansas native, born in Atchison in 1984. She has been a maker of all sorts since her childhood. From an early age, Amy loved to draw, paint, sew and write.

Amy received formal art training at the University of Kansas where she received her BFA in 2006. It was there that she fell in love with printmaking and creating art based on the human form.

Although art and creating have always remained a part of Amy’s life, it was through teaching art, Amy found a resurgence in finding her own artistic voice and making art a regular part of life once again.

Amy is currently located in Topeka, Kansas, where she teaches Printmaking, Painting, and Drawing in the historic building of Topeka High School. She is a mother and wife, and when not teaching or creating, can often be found in the stands at one of her childrens’ soccer or basketball games or watching a dance performance. She loves to travel, especially with her husband, Justin. Her most recent travels to Iceland have become a source of great creative inspiration. Amy is an avid lover of coffee, yoga, reading, collecting the art of others, vintage glassware, and quiet time.

my art

My art is visual storytelling. Personal stories, and the stories of others who inspire me, along with all the questions that swirl in my mind and won’t seem to leave, become the inspiration for my pieces. Creating images has lifelong been the language that comes most naturally to me in expressing complex feelings. My art consists of what I can’t seem to put into adequate words.

I am greatly inspired by nature, the human form, and the stories of our pasts. The interconnectedness of people; their personal and ancestral histories; and the earth drive my symbolism and imagery. The more I create, the more I seem to learn about myself, the world and people around me.

Many of my images are a deep exploration into my personal past and its relation to my present being. My art comes from a personally vulnerable space, but the risk of not exploring and learning through these topics feels like a far bigger gamble to my person than diving in.

The stories of others have always fascinated me. I have always marveled at the discovery of the extraordinary in the seemingly ordinary. When we take the time to really look, hear, and study others, we see that extraordinariness is not uncommon at all, it is in fact all around us.

I draw my inspiration from the natural world. Not only the rich stories, histories, and emotions of beings, but of the places and spaces that we occupy, especially nature. There is a magic to being in nature, that somehow holds the capacity to keep reintroducing me to myself time and time again.

Painting