I was slow to get this post out, my fault - been so busy lately it’s hard to keep up with all the interesting stuff that people I admire are doing!   Well Amy Crehore has new work that is really exceptional such as Lo and Behold: Amy Crehore’s “Literartistry” Paintings which look Great!

The Story of Lolita paintings have a refinement in them that I find amazing.  The imagery, I’m sure, has many layers of meaning and I’ll be printing out a copy so I can absorb what’s in Amy’s work.

Wild Cat Fever is a new Amy Crehore painting that was just written up in Boing Boing -

According to Boing Boing:

Monovita magazine has a nice profile of one of my favorite painters, Amy Crehore. (Shown here: “Wild Cat Fever.”)

The garmentless women in Crehore’s paintings exude a lovely innocence with a hint of deviance. The distinction that sets this surrealist painter apart from her predecessors is that unlike the stiff, posed women present in art throughout the centuries, Crehore’s women are playful, socializing with various animals and pierrots.“I guess I am hooked on painting nude women now. It’s an archetype of beauty and represents naturalness. It’s a classic motif throughout art history, yet most nudes were posed,” Crehore said. “My nudes are actually doing things, and they are imaginary. They are very comfortable without clothes. It’s hard to paint clothes anymore.”

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I’ve been enjoying Amy’s paintings as she’s been creating them, one by one - I see glimpses of them - and then, the whole thing.   Wild Cat Fever goes into new ground, I feel, with compositional elements unlike other of her paintings  - for one thing, the red flower is backdropped by the sky and there’s a feeling of moving forward.

I love Amy Crehore’s new painting “Snake Tamer’s Ditty”- I think she’s been working on it over 2 months and one of the most ambitious and defined works she has done.

Amy’s spirit is in this painting - I can see her feeling in the face, I think I know what the snake signifies in this painting (but I wont’ say it).

The water glows; the motifs of the sideway “8″ and the interconnectedness of every part of the painting - nothing is left to chance.

I hope Amy hangs on to this painting for a while - just to enjoy what she’s achieved.  I printed up parts of the painting and have it on my wall at work.

I think Titian, early Flemish and Dutch oil paintings and Gauguin as some of the influences.